Author: Mark L. GoldsteinPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428932666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Digital television transition issues related to an information campaign regarding the transition.
Author: Mark L. GoldsteinPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428932666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Progress of the DTV Transition
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422399828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Digital Television Transition
Author: Mark L. GoldsteinPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437905870
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 requires all full-power TV stations in the U.S. to cease analog broadcasting by Feb. 17, 2009, known as the digital television (DTV) transition. Prior to this date, the TV broadcast industry must take a series of actions to ensure that over-the-air programming will continue to be available once the transition is complete. For ex., broadcast stations must obtain, install, and test the necessary equipment needed to finalize their digital facilities. This report examines: (1) the status of broadcast stations in transitioning to digital; (2) the extent to which broadcast stations are encountering issues; and (3) the actions the FCC has taken to guide broadcasters in the digital transition. Charts and tables.
The U.S. Digital TV Transition
Author: Thomas W. HazlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Year-end 2006 is scheduled as the date when 1,500 TV stations cease analog broadcasts, continuing in digital format only. Yet, according to a safeguard provision, analog stations will remain in any TV market where fewer than 85 percent of households are equipped to receive digital transmissions over-the-air. Of 33 million TV sets sold in the U.S. in 2000, just 37,000 (0.1 percent) possessed digital reception functionality. This lack of customer interest, combined with the 85% trigger, assures substantial delays. Ironically, a parallel transition to digital TV proceeds spontaneously. About 35% of U.S. TV households subscribe to digital cable or digital satellite service; this level is projected to double by 2006. Subscription TV viewers use set-top converters to translate analog or digital signals for either analog or digital TV sets; the technology transition is inexpensive and seamless to customers. More broadly, the success of subscription TV service is reducing the TV Band to irrelevance. At year-end 2001, 87% of U.S. households will receive their television by wire or satellite link, a proportion expected to grow to 91% in 2004. At that point, fewer than ten million U.S. households will rely on over?the?air TV. If something less than $3 billion is invested to move remaining over-the-air TV viewers to a "limited basic" cable or satellite TV service, substantial social gains result. First, consumers avoid expenditures for new digital TV receivers, saving 50--150 billion dollars. Second, the 402 MHz of prime radio spectrum now allocated to over-the-air TV broadcasting could provide alternative uses (such as mobile telephony or high- speed Internet access) worth 50--470 billion dollars. Public interest considerations also strongly recommend a migration of broadcast TV to subscription services. As the opportunity costs of a spectrum allocation originally conceived in 1939 have grown enormous, gains from allowing market reallocation are commensurate.
The Status of the Digital Television Transition
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the InternetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Digital Television Transition
Author: Mark L. GoldsteinPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437906516
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
The Digital Television (DTV) Transition and Public Safety Act requires all full-power TV stations in the U.S. to cease analog broadcasting by Feb. 17, 2009. Low-power stations are not required to cease analog transmissions and most will continue broadcasting in analog. Fed. law also requires the National Telecomm. and Info. Admin. to subsidize consumers¿ purchases of digital-to-analog converter boxes. This testimony provides info. on: (1) technical and coord. issues facing full-power broadcast stations as they transition to digital; (2) issues pertaining to low-power broadcasting and how they affect consumers; and (3) the extent to which Amer. households are aware of the DTV transition and likely to utilize the converter box subsidy program.
The Digital Television Transition
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the InternetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Management of the Digital TV Transition
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and ProcurementPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Staff Discussion Draft on the Transition to Digital Television
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the InternetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Digital Television Transition
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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