KDDI Research Institute published a report (Japanese-language) I did on white space communications, i.e., unlicensed communications over TV spectrum.
Category Archives: DTV
Nielsen releases DTV readiness update
Last week Nielsen released the results of its latest DTV readiness survey, stating that 3.6M households, or about 3.1% of households, are still “completely unready”, i.e., with no DTV-capable TV sets. (“Partially ready” means at least one set is ready.) This is a vast improvement from December and January, figures which gave grounding to the […]
The analog TV shutdown
I will admit to an exasperated sigh when I heard that President-elect Obama’s transition team had sent a letter to Congress urging it to delay the shutoff of analog TV broadcasts, now scheduled to go off the air on February 17th. The deadline was set by Congress in 2006, and the spectrum to be vacated […]