By Jim Barry, CEA’s Digital Answer Man
Chores done, I’m sitting in the den late on a weekend afternoon multi-tasking– watching The Sox (NESN cable), on a high-def 42-inch plasma and golf (CBS off-air) on an old 20-inch analog with a converter box. Reception is great on both.
It strikes me that it’s exactly a month [...]

by Jack Cutts
We’ve all been there…you’re a Netflix or Blockbuster Online subscriber and your latest movie sits shamefully gathering dust atop your TV cabinet or amongst that pile of mail on the coffee table. My wife and I recently finished our MBAs after having attended class several nights part-time after work for the better [...]

  By Ellen Savage
My six year old son has a morning ritual which was causing me to lose sleep. He wakes early, usually before anyone else in the house, turns on the television in our family room and watches cartoons until the rest of our family rises. I’m glad he is able to entertain himself [...]

By Jim Barry, CEA’s Digital Answer Man
In the midst of the “Digital Answer Man Tour” in Texas last week I did a last-minute DTV reminder segment live on the morning news on KDFW, the Fox affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth www.myfoxdfw.com, I expect this will be my last DTV transition explainer, but then I thought [...]

By Carolyn Slater
Isn’t it lovely to be able to appear just a bit smarter and better informed than you really are? Well those nice folks at CEA Publications (of which I’m a part) can help you out with that.
Each year, we bring together some of the best minds in the consumer electronics world [...]

By Colleen Lerro
I made a trip home for the first time in about a year only to find my parents had a year’s worth of new electronics waiting for me to hook up for them. A new modem, router, Ooma and Sling Box were awaiting me. My Mom also wanted to go over how [...]

  By Rick Kowalski
How do you plan to show your appreciation for Mom this Mother’s Day? Hugs, flowers, and chocolate are the traditional gifts, but is there something else she may want?

A few years ago, CEA found that nearly a third of moms would like electronics for Mother’s Day. To take a closer look at [...]

By Rick Kowalski
On a cool February afternoon, I hit the street with CEA colleagues Lindsay Goodman and Mark Gillins to ask people in the neighborhood about the transition to digital television. This was a particularly confusing time for consumers, as Congress had just passed a bill changing the transition date from February 17, 2009 [...]

By Jason Oxman
President Obama yesterday signed into law S. 232, the DTV Delay Act, which extends the digital television transition date from February 17 to June 12. The President said that the four month extension of the DTV transition will ensure that all Americans benefit from DTV, including those consumers who will benefit from [...]

By Dave Wilson
As Yogi Berra’s cousin Yagi might have said, after February 17th we’ll only have digital DTV signals.
In addition to better picture quality many free over-the-air DTV signals also carry additional programming not found on cable or satellite. For this reason millions of Americans are installing or improving their TV antenna systems, and [...]