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800,000 callers phone digital TV hot line
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Nearly 800,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide move on Friday to drop analog TV signals and broadcast only in digital...The total is still below the 600,000 to 3 million callers that the FCC...
Tags: hot line, digital tvs, Chicago, DTV, FCC
Digital TV switch not without a hitch
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Some folks are scared of the thing and don't know how to hook it up," said Bill Hutchinson, an engineer. "We try to talk them through it." Jim du Bois, of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association, said often people have successfully re-scanned but still...
Tags: digital tvs, converter box, Federal Communications Commission, hot line, FCC, tvs broadcasts, digital converter, NBC, federal hot, digital signal
Analog is dead! Long live digital TV!
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Today is the day when broadcasters nationwide shut off their analog TV signals and replace them with digital TV. Most of the national has converted to some for of digital TV, but an estimated 2. Some news outlets are following the transition around the...
Tags: Digital Television, digital tvs, converter box, digital signal, Centro Latino, Digital TV
Analog TV to sign off starting at noon
Columbus :: OH :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Broadcasters will be turning off their analog signals and switching to digital broadcasts throughout the day...Theirs will take place at noon. "Right now, as we speak, it's just an educational process," said Dennis Lyle, president of the Illinois Broadcasters...
Tags: digital television, theirs analog, analog tvs, converter box, analog broadcasts, digital tvs, digital signal
Many viewers still not ready for prime time
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The digital TV deadline is here, and still, thousands in Connecticut, and millions across the country, are not ready...There have to be some problems with that many people.” That number approaches 10,000 in Connecticut, according to the Nielsen Co...TV...
Tags: converter box, digital tvs
Digital-TV age arrives at midnight
Toledo :: OH :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility If you rely on an antenna — rabbit ears or a rooftop unit — to watch free television, you will not have any service by midnight tonight if you haven't made adjustments to conform with the new digital age. There are 1.75 million households in the U.S....
Tags: converter box, final signoff, NBC, digital tvs, tvs service, U.S, digital television, analog tvs, marking final, analog television
Buyers tune in as digital TV change nears
Boston :: MA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility B est Buy, Comcast and other tube-related companies are seeing a surge in business with the all-digital TV deadline coming up tomorrow...At the Best Buy electronics store at Shoppers World in Framingham, people are streaming in to buy new flat-screen...
Tags: digital tvs
Switch to digital TV is upon us
Houston :: TX :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Nobody knows how many there are in Atlanta’s 2.4 million television households. Nielsen estimates about 26,000. But when they flip on their TVs Friday they’ll enter the twilight zone...They are the viewers the federal government has spent 13 years —...
Tags: converters box, digital tvs, tvs stations, DTV Transition, digital converters, Digital
Digital TV change headache for some
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility 05/28/2009 02:49:42 PM PDT UHF (channels 14 and above) may help. While a TV with an antenna can receive a weak analog signal (the picture will come in but look snowy) a digital signal is all or nothing. When it is not received a viewer will see only...
Tags: digital tvs, Digital
Digital TV switch a month out, but 2% facing cutoff
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Most Hoosiers are ready for the switch to digital TV, but some will have nothing but snow on their screens next month when all stations end their analog signals. A survey sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters last month found that 2 percent...
Tags: digital tvs, analog tvs, converter box
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