With Four More Months to Make the Switch, Over 400 TV Stations Are All Digital
More than 400 television stations have stopped broadcasting in old-fashioned analog form, according to the Federal Communications Commission, months before the rescheduled transition to digital TV.
Turning off the analog signal allows stations that are short of cash to save money, but it also means a loss of service for viewers who have not yet upgraded their older television sets.
The long-awaited move to digital TV, which promises clearer pictures and more channel choices for over-the-air television viewers, had been scheduled to happen Tuesday, more than three years after the federal government set the day as the deadline for stations to cease analog broadcasting.
TiVo on your PC, minus the TiVo box
Using your PC as a DVR isn’t anything new, but LiquidTV | TiVo PC lets you use the elegant TiVo interface for recording your favorite shows. That’s the good news; the bad news is that you’ll still need to pay for a TiVo subscription.
Set for release on October 15, the awkwardly named LiquidTV | TiVo PC (developed jointly by TiVo and Nero, a software maker known for its DVD/CD burning apps) comes in two versions: a $199 hardware and software package (complete with a USB ASTC tuner, a portable antenna, a TiVo remote, and an IR blaster for an optional set-top box, such as a satellite receiver), and a $99 software-only package.
New software turns PC into TiVo TV recorder
NEW YORK – TiVo Inc. and Nero AG of Germany were set to announce Monday that they will be launching a package that turns a Windows PC into a TV recorder, just like a TiVo set-top box.
The kit will cost $199 when it goes on sale Oct. 15, and includes a remote and a TV tuner that plugs into the PC. The interface on the computer screen looks just like the one on a TV equipped with a TiVo box.
It’s not the first software that allows TV recording on the PC. That’s been possible for years on computers equipped with TV tuners, and some versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista operating system include the necessary software. But it will be the first time that both the TiVo interface and functions have been replicated on a PC.