The role of technology in achieving a hard deadline for the DTV transition: hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, February 17, 2005 |
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Page 18 - HDTV 8 services possible. A primary goal of the DTV transition is for the federal government to reclaim spectrum that broadcasters currently use to provide analog television signals. The radiofrequency spectrum is a medium that enables many forms of wireless communications, such as mobile telephone, paging, broadcast television and radio, private radio systems, and satellite services. Because of the virtual explosion of wireless applications in recent years, there is considerable concern that future...
Page 24 - This is the interval that would contain the actual population value for 95 percent of the samples we could have drawn. As a result, we are 95 percent confident that each of the confidence intervals in this report will include the true values in the study population.
Page 16 - May 1994 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. We provided a draft of this report to SEC, Treasury, NASD, and NYSE for review and comment. Their comments and our evaluation are presented at the end of this letter.
Page 24 - In addition to the reported sampling errors, the practical difficulties of conducting any survey may introduce other types of errors, commonly referred to as nonsampling errors. For example, differences in how a particular question is interpreted...
Page 15 - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: I am pleased to be here today to...
Page 6 - Again, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing. And I look forward to hearing from our witnesses.
Page 10 - Chairman. [The prepared statement of Hon. Cliff Stearns follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. CLIFF STEARNS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Thank you, Chairman Bilirakis, for holding this important hearing and for allowing me to participate.
Page 18 - MHz of spectrum — a fairly significant amount. In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Congress directed FCC to reallocate 24 MHz of the reclaimed spectrum to public safety uses. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been a greater sense of urgency to free spectrum for public safety purposes. The remaining returned spectrum will be auctioned for use in advanced wireless services, such as wireless high-speed Internet...
Page 18 - ... viewer gets either a perfect picture or no picture at all. Digital technology also makes it easier to offer high definition television (HDTV). With HDTV, roughly twice as many lines of resolution are transmitted, creating a television picture that is much sharper than traditional analog television pictures.15 Another advantage of digital television is that "digital compression" technologies allow for more efficient use of the radiofrequency spectrum than analog technologies.