LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, which together lead the global digital TV market, announced today that they will propose their jointly developed technology as the North American technology ...
HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii will switch to digital TV faster than the rest of the country to make way for an endangered, volcano-dwelling bird....
Question: If I buy a new digital TV, can I just plug it in and use it, as I do the old TV now? My son insists that it has to be hooked to an antenna, but the old televisions worked fine without one.
... and computer engineering Professor Dennis Silage, an expert in both analog and digital communications, has answered some questions about this digital TV transition and what it will mean for consumers.
... boxes. Coupon shortages. Congressional squabbling. Mass confusion. Such hassles raise a fundamental question about the digital TV transition: What will consumers get in return? Quite a lot, actually.
(AP) -- Congress has now decided to give people four more months to prepare for the upcoming transition from analog to digital TV broadcasting.
(AP) -- Nearly 700,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday.
With the conversion to digital TV, zillions of aliens won't be able to tune in.
(AP) -- The government program that provides $40 coupons for digital TV converter boxes is winding down.
... are
otherwise drowned out While most of the world looked forward to the
switch from analog to digital TV for the sharper picture and
clearer sound, astronomers around the US anticipated the changeover ...
... fined retailers a combined $3.9 million for failing to label analog television sets properly as subject to become essentially useless after the United States switches to digital TV next year.
The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation - broadcast television.
With the flick of an eight-foot switch, Wilmington, N.C. became the first market in the U.S. to make the change to digital-only broadcasting.
Even if all goes smoothly, next February's digital television shift is likely to generate hundreds of thousands of complaints from television viewers around the country.
If you make a big enough stink, the agency that hands out those $40 coupons for digital converter boxes will, apparently, change the rules.
