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To tell the truthWill the real HDTV programming please show up... |
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New Products - World EditionInscriber's Inca AutoCG, plus other new products ... |
Reader Feedback: What's the best way to televise a large conference?
The answer to that question, and more in this month's column...
Too much information
Those of us who remember the advent of color television and were part of the industry at the time can easily recall some of the early panics, illusions and general silliness...
FCC extends Emergency Alert System
The FCC recently announced that it is extending the reach of its Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules to include digital television (DTV), digital cable television, direct broadcast satellite television (DBS), digital radio (DAB or IBOC) and satellite radio (SDARS) in national EAS activations...
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Been there, done thatThe editor discusses how television will adapt to new mobile and IPTV technologies... |
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Videotape restoration: Preserving tape archives
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FCC active on the DTV front
While much attention has been paid in recent weeks to Congressional efforts to set a firm date for the DTV transition, the FCC has been busy with its own initiatives aimed at keeping the DTV clock moving...
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One person's loss is another's gain
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Reader FeedbackLarry Thorpe, national marketing executive, Canon Broadcast & Communications Division, discerns the resolving power of new video cameras... |
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
The networks try to find a little financial benefit from the DTV transition...
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The sky is fallingOn Nov. 4, Disney released its animated movie Chicken Little. You recall the original story...... |
Stinkin' standards wars
The standards war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray has come full front...
Children's programming rules
The approach urged by the UCC would place the FCC in the role of evaluating programming content and, more ominously, regulating on the basis of that evaluation...
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Freedom to viewIn the 21st century, how will the public react to new controls over what, when and where we can watch content... |
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Live traffic reportsSixty percent of cell phone use takes place while driving. And, 8 percent of all drivers are on their cell phones while traveling. Reaction time for these talker-drivers is 30 percent slower than for drivers not talking on a cell phone... |
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Lower the visual volumeWhile watching the Fox News channel, I’ve realized just how much extraneous crap — excuse me, information — is being crammed onto our TV screens... |
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Soccer kicks off HD in Europe
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Viewers: The new program directors
With DVDs, NVOD, VOD and Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), the viewers are becoming the program directors, watching what they want, when they want, with no regard for continuity...
Significantly viewed signals
The FCC has declared that satellite carriers may carry otherwise distant signals that are significantly viewed in specified communities...
Anarchy for the masses
Maybe it's about time to start a movement to get the government to butt out of allocating broadcast licenses. Let's leave it to the market...
New captioning requirements
The FCC has adopted a notice of proposed rule making (NPRM) looking to toughen the closed-captioning rules...
The outer limits of fair use
It is still unclear whether consumer piracy is a real problem, especially for television programs...
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The smell of free money
Scene opens in a typical American home. Time: early 2009. Husband and wife in living room with old-style TV set. Goody, goody, goody! Yahoo! We're getting...
