Three weeks after being let go by CBS, the former anchor has agreed to launch a program called "
Dan Rather Presents" on HDNet, the high-definition channel owned by billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
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Yesterday afternoon around 3:00 I noticed that ABC, NBC, and CBS were all showing golf (women's match play championship, men's senior tournament, and men's tournament.) Weird. That's got to be some kind of first.
farmers market on my block now. i think it will be every sunday. the street is blocked off between broome and delancy. unfortunately i have a fresh direct delivery due any minute. d'oh.
Korea Rising ... I'm shopping to replace a dead Panasonic DVD player, and a
Samsung DVD/VHS recorder has risen to the top of the heap. While DVD recorders have gotten dirt cheap, huge feature gaps remain. The Samsung unit works with every DVD format (except DVD Audio). Why is that so frickin' hard, Philips, Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba? I'm hoping this is the last SD-only DVD gizmo I ever have to get.
Telecom industry blogs I read:
GigaOm
telepocalypse
Future Bright For Home Media, Analysts Say
Two separate analyst reports released Thursday paint a rosy future for home media servers and the networks that they will use to pipe content around the home.
Rising China TV spec may sink DVB-H
Mike Clendenin
EE Times
(07/03/2006 9:00 AM EDT)
Shanghai, China -- As China prepares a digital terrestrial TV standard suitable for fixed and mobile terminals, uncertainty is growing over the future of rival mobile-TV standards here.
China has been experimenting with two competing mobile-TV broadcast standards: Digital Video Broadcast-based DVB-Handheld and a South Korean derivative of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) known as Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. However, now that China's own digital TV standard is close to finished, authorities here are giving it priority, threatening the viability of European-invented DVB-H and DAB-based T-DMB.