This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.
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As well as his post at Channel 4, Mr Cox is also chairman of the digital TV stakeholders' group, which was set up last year to promote digital TV and advise the government on policy.
But the evidence suggests instead that we are seeing defections from the bottom of the economic ladder, spurred in part by a return to over-the-air broadcast TV among those households that were pushed into Pay TV by the Digital TV transition in June 2009.
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The RCA Mobile TV Tablet also receives mobile digital TV channels from broadcasters not affiliated with Dyle.
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What is further interesting to note is that Comcast now has close to 21 million digital TV subscribers implying that close to 95% of its pay-TV subscriber base is on digital platform.
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Americans may not be great readers in the TV and digital age, but they still buy lots of books.
Reflecting the cross-platform nature of ESPNFC, both TV and digital content will be heavily integrated to highlight major club news and analysis across all screens.
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Separately, the BBC runs a Switchover Help Scheme to help older and disabled people with everything they need to switch one TV to digital.
Don't confuse high-definition TV with digital cable or digital satellite systems.
Customers will use the platform to receive regular TV programs as well as advanced television services including standard- and high-definition programs, interactive TV, digital video recording and video on demand.
Running cables in an older home for phone, TV, digital subscriber line or networking is tough, and most of us aren't capable of running them through walls where they won't be seen.
Christy Tanner, the general manager of TV Guide Digital, used existing online properties to promote the initial mobile app and then worked to improve it as her team learned how people were using it.
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"The franchises and tent poles that each studio has are just out there to make money, " opines Jonathan Kuntz, a film historian at the University of California Los Angeles' department of film, TV and digital media.
Relying largely on a cross-platform mobile strategy and mobile advertising, TV Guide Digital has seen very positive results since it launched its iPhone app in October 2009--more than 1 million downloads of the app within six months of launch, and a total of 3.5 million downloads so far across iPhone, iPad and Android.
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But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
Content owners, advertisers, pay TV operators and other players in the digital TV industry can now generate and manage vouchers, including those that promote specific merchants, facilitating an entirely new class of consumer engagement.
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Our new RCA Mobile TV Tablet includes a telescoping antenna to receive regular digital TV channels when you're not moving, and mobile TV when life keeps you busy and on the move.
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And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.
Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).
DVB-H, which has been adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as the standard for mobile TV services in Europe, works by beaming a signal to a digital TV receiver, attached to phones.
Digital TV offers a wider range of channels than analogue TV and much of the content available on teletext-based services can be accessed on digital sets.
While the government will only take existing analogue stations off air when 95% of housholds have access to digital TV, this does not take into account the many homes where the main television is digital-compatible but second or third sets are not.
In addition, to show how local TV broadcasters can now offer more than just linear TV channels, LG Electronics is showing its first Android-enabled smartphone prototype equipped with Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) reception, which offers conditional access functionality for future subscription broadcasts and the capability of receiving "non-real time" data such as electronic coupons.
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Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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Sesame Workshop last year integrated its digital media group into its TV production, so that digital and interactive elements are considered from the start of an idea.
It comes with an air purifier, radar to help with backing and digital TV.
The switch to all-digital TV has released chunks of broadcasting spectrum for other uses.
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The UK's conversion to digital TV began in 2007, with a region-by-region switch off.
Brazil is rolling out digital TV and aims to switch off analogue signals from 2016.
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