digital tv

Want a digital TV this holiday season? You can get one pretty cheaply, without changing your set.

Hawaii will switch to digital TV faster than the rest of the country to make way for an endangered, volcano-dwelling bird.

Hoping to rev up awareness for the transition to digital TV, the Federal Communications Commission is putting up $350,000 to sponsor NASCAR team No. 38.

A pending mandatory switch of all U.S. televisions to digital will be messy, a federal communications official said on Tuesday, urging broadcasters to step up local efforts to educate the public.

Even if all goes smoothly, next February's digital television shift is likely to generate hundreds of thousands of complaints from television viewers around the country.

The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation — broadcast television.

Researchers have developed a method to calculate how a device can provide maximum functionality with a minimum quantity of processor and memory capacity.

TVs, DVD players and mobile phones can malfunction when the inbuilt chips and software cease to cope with the increasingly large flow of data.

With the transition to digital television next year, some consumers might want or need a new set.

But they don't have to pay top-dollar for an HDTV set; other choices are available.

The transition to digital broadcasting is the biggest thing to hit television since color. To make sure it goes smoothly, the Federal Communications Commission wants to do a test run.

Beginning Feb. 17, the Department of Commerce will begin distributing coupons to help pay for special digital TV converter boxes.

On the same day, three major retailers are expected to begin selling the boxes, the agency said Thursday.