Humboldt HDTV Digital Television Information

Q: The transition to digital broadcasts poses a problem for some people who record daytime shows on their VCRs to watch when they come home from work. I asked the salesman at Radio Shack about the two converter models they sell, and they do not have a timer feature to set up like a [...]

A new administration, and everything changes. Barack Obama has already announced that his weekly radio address to the nation will also be filmed and then posted on YouTube. If nothing else, this is a president who understands communications in the 21st Century. In fact, he’s already started using the Democratic weekly address as an opportunity to [...]

The transition from analog to digital television broadcasts in the U.S. can best be described as “exceptional“. On February 17, 2009, all TV stations in the country will stop broadcasting analog signals, and will only broadcast digital. Except some that are not full-power stations. And except for most of the stations in Wilmington, NC, which [...]

It’s not a good time to be an LCD HDTV maker. Sharp is Japan’s largest LCD TV maker — and fifth largest LCD panel maker worldwide — and they’re taking it on the chin. According to a report from PriceSCAN, the average selling price for LCD HDTVs 50″ and larger fell by 6% in October [...]

February 17, 2009 is just four months away. If you have any of your TVs connected to an antenna, you should be thinking about how you’re going to get a signal after the digital conversion. Your old analog set can have a long life after the digital switch-over, but you’ll need a digital converter box. [...]

Look at this picture. Yes, the device on the right is an iPod, and you can store photos and video on it which you can then watch on the little LCD screen. But what if you want to show the content to someone else, or a couple of people? Do you all crowd around and [...]

CompUSA.com sent out an email yesterday advertising some sale specials. The lead item was a 61″ 120 Hz 1080p HDTV on sale for $1,099.99. This is no off-brand product; it’s from Samsung. It’s ready to display 3D images, such as movies or video games. And it’s not a refurbished return; it’s got a full factory [...]

MultiMedia Intelligence issued a press release last week, announcing a new research report on peer-to-peer use of the Internet for for video content and its impact on connection bandwidths and the new data transfer caps being implemented by Comcast on all residential accounts. The release gives a lot of good information, even if you don’t spend [...]

YouTube is the place to watch those funky homemade short videos, right? Stuff like cats doing clever (or stupid) things, or stunts that might make it on AFHV. And of course there are those clips from TV shows, many of which are posted illegally by viewers and soon get taken down. But you don’t find [...]

Circuit City acknowledged that there is indeed an elephant in the room today, declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an attempt to seek protection from creditors while it tries to create a reorganization plan to save the company. The problem is that it owes millions of dollars to the very companies that it needs to provide [...]