Analog TV is inefficient, using large swaths of broadcast frequencies that also happen to be ideal for cellular telephone networks, especially those that handle broadband wireless data.

A few weeks ago, Washington woke up and realized that February 17, 2009 was less than two years away. This wouldn't matter except that it's the day the government has chosen to be the end of analog ...

CEA issued this statement supporting the staff draft released by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens and Co-Chairman Daniel Inouye. "Senator Stevens and Senator Inouye have taken a critical ...

Do you still have an old analog CRT television lying around? With the advent of digital signals, analog TV´s are going to the dumpster or the recycling center. But you can still put them to good ...

(AP) -- The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital. And this time, they really mean it.

Television stations across the U.S. began cutting their analog signals Friday, marking the final signoff for a 60-year-old technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes ...

Digital television offers viewers better sound and picture quality, as well as more channels, and eliminating analog programming should free up airwaves for public-safety communications and ...

Glut of analog paraphernalia Some see a practical role for the old gear, if it can be converted for DTV. “Many of our customers have been converting their analog transmitter to digital backup just in ...

The FCC has ruled that cable operators must either pay to upgrade their subscribers’ TV sets, or continue to offer analog channels until 2012. The latter proposal — the only financially viable ...

Television broadcasters are getting ready to ditch analog programming and go fully digital in four months — and 10 million U.S. households aren’t even ready for the switch, a survey says. That ...

Analog TV cutoff as early as 2007?If John McCain has his way, the government will require television stations to stop broadcasting analog TV by January 1, 2007. The senator and other lawmakers in ...