FCC sends wrong signal on digital TV
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Yes, our government is now in the business of pushing expensive TV sets on consumers who are wisely keeping their wallets closed.
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A recent court ruling paves the way for you to throw out your cable TV decoder and use the space for something else -- like a TiVo Series3. But the technology has its drawbacks. By Chris Kohler.
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Is CBS adequately addressing digital distribution?
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U.S. television broadcasters on  Monday labeled as inadequate planned legislation to ensure  millions of consumers can still watch television once  broadcasters begin airing only in digital.
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The second phase of the FCC's testing of devices that use spectrum between broadcast TV channels kicks off next week.
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Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, television stations will stop broadcasting analog signals. An older, non-digital television without cable or satellite service will need a special converter box to receive a picture.
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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New FCC-mandated system relocates cable TV security outside the cable box. Don't count on any real benefits.
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Minimising interference Existing digital television services could be affected by the national switchover to all-digital television, Ofcom has warned.â¦
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Americans are becoming more aware of next year's switch-over to digital TV, but many are still confused about how they will be affected, according to a pair of surveys released on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - The association of television broadcasters launched a campaign on Monday designed to persuade the Federal Communications Commission not to allow portable wireless Internet services in the so-called "white spaces" of TV spectrum. The move pits powerful broadcasters against some of the biggest names in technology, including Microsoft, Google, Intel, and Dell. The broadcasters said they began airing a television advertisement as well as print ads in several Capital Hill publications on Monday. They also planned to send a letter to the FCC arguing that enabling portable wireless Internet services in the white spaces will degrade TV service for consumers just as they spend billions of dollars buying new digital TV sets. "This investment should not be jeopardized by the introduction of unlicensed personal and portable devices that are sure to interfere with television reception," the letter reads. The campaign from the National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for Maximum Service Television comes in response to anÂ FCC report detailing its testing of prototype devices from the technology giants, which are working together as theÂ White Space Coalition. The companies, also including Hewlett-Packard, EarthLink, and Philips Electronics North America, had submitted prototypes of products that could operate in the portion of a spectrum band that a TV broadcaster doesn't use, known as white space. The devices were designed to look for broadcasts in the spectrum and then transmit only if the spectrum was free. But the FCC found that the devices didn't consistently detect the signals and could sometimes cause interference. The FCC has already approved transmission in the spectrum for fixed devices. The prototypes submitted by the technology companies were of portable products. However, two weeks after the FCC released its report,Â Microsoft filed a letter with the FCCÂ explaining that the device it submitted was badly damaged and that's why it failed to adequately detect broadcast signals. The broadcasters say that even if the devices work as designed, they won't protect digital TV sets from "devastating interference." That interference would cause an unacceptable hit on quality, they say. "While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not," Alan Frank, NAB's chairman, said in a press release. Even though the FCC found that the prototype devices don't consistently work properly, the agency said it is open to the possibility that future devices could perform better.
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Not all of the cable company's broadband subscribers got a recent hike in bandwidth.
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Using power lines for the net could disrupt a new digital radio system, a broadcasting conference hears.
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The nondescript cable box is the object of a lot of frenzied lobbying over at the Federal Communication Commission these days, with consequences for your pocketbook and how you watch television. - Jonathan Krim
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission this week hopes to do what Congress could not accomplish this year -- help AT&amp;T Inc. and Verizon Communications get into the television business faster.
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A group of technology vendors has submitted new test results for a wireless device intended to operate in unused portions of the television spectrum, after an identical device malfunctioned in U.S. Federal Communications Commission tests earlier this year.
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NEW YORK -- TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna?