Jun
28
Gadget Guru Dan Daru spent Friday morning learning all about the Digitial TV conversion that’s coming in February 2009. He has some valuable information that you can use in advance of the changeover on February 17, 2008. It only affects people who watch TV using an antenna. It does not affect people who watch TV on cable or satellite.
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Jun
28
News Corp. Could Bid for European Pay TV Players (New York Times)
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The News Corporation may bid for two major pay-TV players, Germany’s Premiere and Spain’s Digital+ , in a move that could give more responsibility to James Murdoch, son of News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Jun
28
UEFA confident of no further TV coverage cuts after storm batters Vienna (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
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VIENNA, Austria - European Championship organizers apologized Thursday for the 18-minute coverage blackout of the Germany-Turkey semifinal that left TV companies unhappy and mulling possible action.
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Jun
28
Firefox 3, Internet TV, Gates Retrospective (PC World via Yahoo! News)
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Readers discuss Firefox’s 17 million downloads, 5 reasons to watch TV on the Web, and 10 pivotal moments in Bill Gates’ Microsoft career.
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Jun
28
Survey: Satellite tops cable in customer satisfaction (The Capital Times)
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Satellite TV customers are more satisfied with their providers than are cable TV subscribers, according Beta Research Corp., Multichannel.com reported Wednesday. Beta Research compared satisfaction numbers from the Fall 2007 digital cable subscribers survey to the satisfaction results from a phone survey of 700 Echostar (DISH Network) and DirecTV customers conducted in March. Beta found that 71 …
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Jun
28
This week’s TV Q&A responds to questions about “Battlestar Galactica,” “Little People, Big World” and “Work Out.”
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