WASHINGTON – The Senate on Monday voted unanimously to postpone the digital tv deadline, A.K.A. the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12, 2009 — setting the stage for Congress to pass the proposal as early as Tuesday. Monday’s Senate vote is a big victory for the Obama administration and [ Read More ]
You spent hundreds or thousands on a fancy new HDTV — so you ought to be able to tell when you’re watching a high-definition television program vs. one of those moldy old standard-def shows, right? Alas, that’s not quite the case. A full 18 percent of HDTV owners can’t tell the difference between SD and [ Read More ]
Okay, you just purchased your new High Definition TV. You get it home, you plug it up and you connect your cable or satellite box to it and turn on the TV and… Hey! The picture on my new HDTV looks the same as my old TV…Why? When you plug in your new HDTV, everything [ Read More ]
The FCC currently has a February 17, 2009, deadline for the transition to all digital broadcasting. On this date, all analog broadcasting will stop, and consumers will need to buy converter boxes to receive programming on their older TVs. This deadline has been pushed back several times in the last few years because of both [ Read More ]