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	Analog TV Broadcast Systems
		The first practical TV transmissione were performed by John Logie Baird in 1926 (30 lines/frame, 5 frames/s).
		In 1965 Europe failed to agree on one colour TV broadcast system: France went SECAM, eastern Europe decided on "a variety of SECAM", while most of the remainder of Europe decided to use PAL.
		SECAM colour TV was insensitive to this flutter, however since SECAM uses FM on its colour subcarrier, the frequency spectrum became complicated and the risk of intermodulation, causing interference patterns in the picture, was large.
	www.stjarnhimlen.se /tv/tv.html (5040 words)

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		About Analog TV Television picture and sound information is encoded as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and frequencies of the signal.
		Analog transmission of television programming will cease to operate in the United States in 2009, requiring all television sets to have a digital tuner to receive television broadcasts.
		Because SECAM is incompatible with other TV systems, it was adopted by many former Communist countries to prevent their people from seeing and being influenced by TV programming from Western countries.
	www.xceive.com /global_demo/analog.htm (860 words)

	DIGITAL TELEVISION (DTV) Tomorrow's TV Today! — FAQs - Consumer Corner
		The switch from analog TV (the traditional TV system using magnetic waves to transmit and display TV pictures and sound) to digital television (the new TV system using information transmitted as "data bits" -- like a computer -- to display movie-quality pictures and sound), is referred to at the digital TV (DTV) transition.
		Analog broadcasting will continue until the end of the transition period, which currently is set for February 17, 2009.
		Analog television has an aspect ratio of 4 by 3, which means the screen is 4 units wide by 3 units high.
	www.dtv.gov /consumercorner.html (2286 words)

	abc11tv.com: Digital TV is Here!
		The switch from analog TV (the traditional TV system using magnetic waves to transmit and display TV pictures and sound) to digital television (the new TV system using information transmitted as "data bits" -- like a computer -- to display movie-quality pictures and sound), is referred to at the digital TV (DTV) transition.
		Analog television service is the traditional TV system. Analog television has been the standard broadcast technology since the inception of television using magnetic waves to transmit and display pictures and sound. The best obtainable picture using analog television is of SDTV quality.
		The final transition is February 2009. At that point, broadcasting the current "analog" channels will end and that spectrum will be put to other uses. Until the transition to DTV is complete, television stations will continue broadcasting on both their digital and analog channels.
	abclocal.go.com /wtvd/story?section=local&id=4421312 (1840 words)

	End of analog has broadcasters scrambling : National-World : Albuquerque Tribune
		Analog broadcasts - a basic TV signal sent through the air - are set to end in 2009.
		Moving TV broadcasts to digital will free up the 700-megahertz frequency band used by analog, meaning that spectrum can be used for emergency communications and auctioned for new wireless services.
		Broadcasters and TV manufacturers are starting to realize they need to get the word out so the nation's 20 million households that rely on free, over-the-air broadcasts don't turn on their TVs to find a blank screen on Feb. 17, 2009, the transition date.
	www.abqtrib.com /news/2007/mar/05/end-analog-has-broadcasters-scrambling (899 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Digital Television Works"
		In reality, however, an analog TV displays half of those lines in a sixtieth of a second, and then displays the other half in the next sixtieth, so the whole frame is updated every thirtieth of a second.
		TV stations set up antennas and broadcast radio signals to individual communities.
		An analog TV has a 4:3 aspect ratio, meaning that the screen is 4 units wide and 3 units high.
	www.howstuffworks.com /dtv1.htm/printable (2549 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Digital Television Works"
		In reality, however, an analog TV displays half of those lines in a sixtieth of a second, and then displays the other half in the next sixtieth, so the whole frame is updated every thirtieth of a second.
		When analog TV shows are upconverted and broadcast on digital TV stations, they are broadcast in 480p or 480i.
		An analog TV has a 4:3 aspect ratio, meaning that the screen is 4 units wide and 3 units high.
	electronics.howstuffworks.com /dtv1.htm/printable (2448 words)

	Feds: No analog TV by '09
		Broadcasters are supposed to give back the analog frequencies at the end of 2006 or when the audience capable of receiving a digital TV signal reaches 85%, whichever comes first.
		If the signal is carried on the analog tier, cable systems would have to down-convert the signal for those sets unable to carry it, but those people would be counted as part of the digital TV audience.
		The rest of the world is switching over to digital TV signals, and the public policy reasons for allowing broadcasters to essentially "warehouse" the analog frequencies is being outweighed by the need for frequencies by public safety agencies and the new services that could be generated once those channels are released, Ferree argues.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000487387 (1121 words)

	Warning labels proposed for analog TV sets - Lost Remote TV Blog
		tv and radio people think this is really something while the general population just yawns.
		The display can be a projector, computer monitor, or a TV if you want to pay for the built-in but unnecessary tuner and speakers.
		If you don’t have ota tv, you could have a tornado or a severe thunderstorm cell on your butt and not be able to prepare for it.
	www.lostremote.com /2007/01/23/warning-labels-proposed-for-analog-tv-sets (520 words)

	CEA: Digital America - Analog TV
		Digital-to-analog converter boxes and cable and satellite television services will assure analog TVs sold this year will have many more years of use, but the government-imposed digital tuner mandates quickly are bringing an end to the analog chapter of television manufacturing.
		Perhaps the biggest trend in analog (and digital) direct-view CRT designs in the last three years is the proliferation of sets incorporating picture tubes with virtually flat screens.
		This circuit allows TV owners (usually parents) to program their sets to block out broadcasts that have what viewers consider excessive levels of violence, sexual content or objectionable language.
	www.ce.org /Press/CEA_Pubs/912.asp (849 words)

	House Of Representatives: House Proposes "Do Not Buy This TV" Label - Gizmodo
		Given that most TV shoppers are not hooking up rabbit ears and are, instead, getting their signal via cable or signals coming from space aliens, a warning label seems unnecessary.
		As for the cable-analog comment, while true that the old tvs will still work, the cable companies would love to turn off their analog channels and switch to all digital for the bandwidth gains.
		If you buy an analog TV today and don't know that all stations will only be DTV in 2 years, then you provably lived in a hole for the last 5 years.
	gizmodo.com /gadgets/house-of-representatives/house-proposes-do-not-buy-this-tv-label-231657.php (1485 words)

	TV Wonder™ 650
		TV Wonder™ 650 enhances standard analog TV by delivering the sharp, clear video image that one would expect from today’s high-end consumer televisions.
		TV Wonder™ 650 is capable of hardware MPEG-2 compression, offloading the work from your CPU and producing a high quality capture that can easily be transferred to DVD.
		TV Wonder 650 is the perfect complement for this powerful media operating system, as it upgrades your PC to take full advantage of the abundance of media capabilities.
	ati.amd.com /products/tvwonder650 (964 words)

	[ EEPI-Discuss ] Hypocrisy in Analog TV Cutoff Debate
		As noted in: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101401960.html Congress is moving toward demanding a late 2008, early 2009 cutoff to conventional off-air analog television broadcasting.
		Most of the spectrum to be pulled from analog TV has nothing whatever to do with public safety, and everything to do with auctioning off the spectrum to private companies for many billions of dollars.
		And that doesn't even take into account all of the secondary TVs that many people have in their homes that often depend on off-air signals, even if a fancier primary set is hooked to cable or satellite.
	www.eepi.org /archives/eepi-discuss/msg00160.html (425 words)

	FCIC: Consumer Focus
		There are still analog televisions on the market, but the FCC requires that all TVs shipped from the manufacturer after March 1, 2007 must include a digital tuner.
		Analog sets may be available in late 2008 or early 2009 at drastically reduced prices.
		Analog TVs will continue to work with cable, satellite, VCRs, DVD players, camcorders, video game consoles and other devices for many years.
	www.pueblo.gsa.gov /cfocus/cfdtv07/focus.htm (814 words)

	USATODAY.com - Broadcasters accept new deadline for digital TV signals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In a boost to the nation's transition to digital TV, broadcasters told Congress Wednesday they would agree to give up their analog channels and start broadcasting only in digital by 2009.
		They fear that many consumers with analog TV sets who get only broadcast channels via antenna would see their screens go dark.
		Meanwhile, lawmakers are eager to reclaim the analog airwaves to improve public safety radio communication.
	www.usatoday.com /money/media/2005-07-12-digital-tv-usat_x.htm (447 words)

	All About Digital TV - DTV and HDTV
		Analog televisions that use CRT technology have been around for many years.
		Plasma TV's create a picture from a gas (plasma) filled with xenon and neon atoms and millions of electrically charged atoms and electrons, that collide when you turn the power on.
		After that, consumers will be able to hook up a set-top box to their existing TV to receive digital TV broadcast signals, but not in high-definition.
	www.webopedia.com /DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2005/HDTV.asp (1594 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Netherlands bids farewell to analog TV
		Netherlands bids farewell to analog TV Having switched completely to digital signals, the Netherlands on Monday became the first country to say goodbye to traditional analog television.
		Analog television was introduced in the Netherlands in 1951, but few people are currently using the old-fashioned TV antennas.
		Countries around the world are gradually making the switch to digital, with some Scandinavian countries and Belgium ready for complete switch in 2007, and the United States in 2009 and Japan in 2011.
	english.people.com.cn /200612/12/eng20061212_331526.html (211 words)

	Goodbye to Analog TV
		However, there are those who prefer analog, especially for audio, and say analog gets a bum rap mostly because most stations don't service their analog equipment, so it's old, dirty and inefficient and puts out a lower grade signal than its capable of.
		My best advice is to purchase a TV antenna that is large enough to be certain it can easily receive all of the digital broadcast signals in your area, even during poor reception conditions.
		Those of us who currently subscribe to analog cable will be required to rent converters from the cable company or buy digital tv's with QAM tuners (the QAM tuner option will not work if you subscribe to expanded basic and your cable company decides to scramble all channels above the limited basic tier).
	askbobrankin.com /goodbye_to_analog_tv.html (2448 words)

	Analog TV broadcasts to end by 2009 - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
		The plan also would allocate as much as $1.5 billion for a “converter box” program to help people with older, analog TV sets that would lose their signal in the digital era.
		Consumers who have newer TV sets capable of receiving digital signals would not notice a change when the switch is made in 2009, nor should satellite television viewers and the roughly 26 million households with digital cable.
		Under the converter box program, consumers with analog sets would be able to request two, $40 coupons to help buy the set-top boxes, which are expected to cost $50 to $60 each.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10563834 (659 words)

	New bill proposes analog TV warning
		US Representatives Joe Barton (R-Texas), Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois), and Fred Upton (R-Michigan) are proposing a bill that will require any remaining analog TV sets to come with a warning label indicating that it will need a converter box come February 2009.
		This is, of course, in reference to the legislation saying that television broadcasters will be required to stop broadcasting analog signal and go digital-only by early 2009.
		Consumers who are still hanging onto their old, antiquated analog sets will be required to install a digital-to-analog converter in order to continue receiving broadcasts.
	arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20070125-8706.html (551 words)

	Surviving the Digital TV Shift
		The problem is that analog waves often degrade on their way to your TV set, which creates interference.
		Federal authorities have let the TV stations broadcast in both analog and digital over a number of years to give new digital TV sets a chance to make their way into the nation's living rooms.
		That means 99.99 percent of TV households in the United States can receive digital over-the-air broadcasts from most of their local stations.
	www.wired.com /entertainment/music/news/2005/07/68091 (656 words)

	ALL-DIGITAL TELEVISION IS COMING (AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK!)
		If you have an analog television and do not own a DTV, you will have to purchase a digital-to-analog set-top converter box to attach to your TV set to be able to view over-the-air digital programming (see “What About My Analog TV?” below).
		After February 17, 2009, you will be able to receive and view over-the-air digital programming with an analog TV only by purchasing a digital-to-analog set-top converter box.
		With a digital-to-analog converter box attached to an analog TV, you will experience many of the benefits of digital television, including improved picture quality and the ability to view multicast streams provided by local broadcasters.
	www.fcc.gov /cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html (1253 words)

	March 1: The beginning of the end for analog TV \| Crave : The gadget blog
		That's one reason why it's become increasingly impossible to buy large-screen analog TVs: Big-screen models were the first to fall under the digital tuner mandate, and it's been applied to smaller and smaller screen sizes as the decade has progressed.
		That's why the tens of millions of TV viewers who are cable or satellite subscribers should be largely unaffected by the 2009 over-the-air analog cut-off.
		Likewise, manufacturers may tweak an internal analog tuner to accept only a cable TV signal--rather than one from an antenna--thus skirting the requirements of the rule.
	crave.cnet.com /8301-1_105-9685948-1.html (2208 words)

	Analog - Gizmodo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mandate that future owners of chunks of the 700Mhz spectrum being auctioned off when analog TV goes kaput in 2009 make their networks neutral, allowing any "safe" device to attach to them, kind of like landlines.
		If your grandma doesn't care for replacing her 30-year-old analog set with something capable of receiving digital broadcasts, this DTA800 will be able to receive digital over-the-air (OTA) and translate it to analog.
		Uncle Sam is handing out up to $80 a household to go toward the signal conversion boxes your grandparents need to keep watching Heroes on their clunky analog TV after the move to all-digital broadcasting in Feb. 2009.
	www.gizmodo.com /gadgets/analog (1424 words)

	Techdirt: Netherlands Turns Off Analog TV; World Doesn't End
		Only one of those TVs is HD compatible and every single one, yes every one, is still making use of the antenna input to tune in local stations.
		TV stations in the Netherlands might find that they only have 25% the viewers that they did previously, but there is no way to know by the short few hours after you pull the plug.
		The old unused analog spectrum will eventually be used for wireless broadband for everyone, everywhere as well as a host of new services.
	techdirt.com /articles/20061211/161257.shtml (4800 words)

	EETimes.com - Handset tunes in analog TV
		The TV system itself is surprisingly well-integrated, requiring only two major chips: a silicon TV tuner by Sony and a sound/video signal-processing chip by Renesas.
		Output from the TV subsystem is sent to a second board resident in the upper half of the flip-style handset, where it connects to an NTSC/PAL video decoder by AKM Semiconductor (AK8855).
		It's possible that analog TV will be a short-lived technology in mobile handsets, however, given the rise of several digitally broadcast alternatives.
	www.eetimes.com /news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=168600827 (874 words)

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