Archive for June, 2009

Digital Television Transition: DTV and HDTV Conversion Checklist

Transition to digital television is today! Have you waited until the last minute to get ready for the conversion to DTV? If so, we’ve prepared a checklist of what you will need to continue watching free television on your local TV stations. In many cases, you won’t need to do anything. Here’s the scoop… Do [...]

Digital Television Switch (DTV) Countdown in U.S. Ends On Friday

June 11, 2009 -  With the “official” countdown to the DTV conversion being nearly over, there have been a flurry of media reports about the issue in the press this past week. As usual, the majority of the popular press seems to be incapable of reporting the story in a competent, thorough or politically unmotivated [...]

Local Digital Television Websites: A Sorry State of Affairs

The DTV transition in Humboldt County, California is so low-key, that you wouldn’t even know it was happening, if you relied upon news from the websites of local digital television broadcasters, that is. To put it mildly, web sites belonging to local digital (and analog) television stations in Northern California are nearly all but useless, [...]