The 2001 HDTV Marketplace Overview Report is a summary of the state-of-the-HDTV marketplace, compiled from a ide range of published sources by SCRI. The over 70-page report contains reviews and reports on the following subject areas:

1: DTV 2000 - LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK

• High Hopes For The Future, With Doubts From The Year Past
• Will HDTV Succumb To Convergence?
• We have too much invested to just walk away
• Back down to earth
• DTV was stuck on the runway in 2000

  2: BROADCASTERS AT ODDS WITH FCC

• Kennard And Fritts Exchange Trade Fire
• Get with the program
• The FCC Chair lashes out at broadcasters
• Showdown in Las Vegas
• TV makers vs. broadcasters vs. FCC
• Sinclair on the outside .... for now
• FCC keeps broadcast company at bay
• NCTA to NAB: 'Don't do the hustle'
• Cable tells broadcasters to stop shifting blame for DTV woes
• Mid-year 2000: What's on TV?
• Desperately seeking content
• TV owners try DirecTV and EchoStar's Dish Network
• Bickering over HD
• Copy protection, local-into-local, and other issues
• Not meeting the numbers
• Kennard: Broadcasters are "dragging their feet"
• How to slice up a spectrum
• Datacasting war threatened networks and their affiliates
• The network point of view
• Nets address the datacasting issue
• Let's stick together
• Nets stress cooperation with affiliates
• Fine-tuning datacasting plans
• More than a few problems surround datacasting
• Congress takes on datacasting W
• arns broadcasters to put issue on the back burner
• Washington watches the broadcasters
• More to DTV slowdown than just broadcasters
• Broadcasters bite back
• Vow to hold onto spectrum rights
• Auctioning analog channels
• Congress warns: Get off 60-69 spectrum
• Feud with cable biz finally ends
• Long fight over labels, copy protection is over
• Kennard strikes again
• FCC chair seeks compensation from TV stations
• Spectrum squatting targeted
• "Endangers America's lead in new tech"
• In the public interest
• Use bandwidth or give it back says Kennard
• Wireless industry backs Kennard
• Calls spectrum sales "an outrage"
• Tough talk, but no fines
• FCC takes it easy on tardy broadcasters
• Christmas comes late for DTV
• February compact insures DTV, cable compatibility
• Broadcasters remained worried
• Cable industry carries few new channels

  3: THE MANUFACTURERS' POINT OF VIEW

  TV makers supported HD to varying degrees
• PICTURE THIS: HD PROGRAMMING
• TV makers, syndicators do their part
• Hollywood gears up
• Syndicators take a hard look at HD
• The acid test: TV sales
• Despite industry efforts, purchases were lackluster
• The view from the Continent
• Analysts see DTV spurring new business models
• Consumers wary of DTV cost
• Report shows "awareness," but reluctance to spend

  4: A TALE OF TWO TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS

• Initially spurned, Sinclair returns to challenge 8-VSB
• Neither 8-VSB or COFDM pass test
• Both come up lacking for terrestrial DTV success
• Nothing doing with 8-VSB
• MSTV report bodes for broadcasters
• More revelations from MSTV report
• DTV broadcasts interfering with NTSC
• Sinclair COFDM effort redeemed
• Asks where are "miracle chips" that will save 8-VSB?
• FCC failed to take action on comments
• Waged "war of words" to accelerate 8-VSB rollout
• An uncomfortable silence
• DTV rollout, standards debate on hold?
• Dual-DTV standard readdressed
• Broadcasters should have choice of DVB-T or ATSC

  5: IS THERE DIGITAL LIFE BEYOND 8-DVB?

• Alternate standards (and delivery methods) gain ground
• DVB-T gets nod from Hong Kong
• Country dubs it the 'Global Standard'
• DVB-T: A 'global standard'
• Latvia joins the world with DVB-T
• US West delivers DTV via fiber
• 'HDTV-Net' delivers high-bandwidth video
• Pinnacle bows HDTV tuner card for PCs
• Card Receives all ATSC standards and SDTV

  6: THERE IS LIFE OUT THERE

• Rumours of H/DTV's death have been at least slightly exagerrated
• HDTV Streaming at 20Mbps Possible
• Over Standard Data Networks or Internet
• Broadcast, telecom, distance learning can benefit
• About HD-over-IP technology
• Prototype runs over industry-standard LAN
• APS Posts Trailer For Feature Film "Nicolas"
• First Movie Produced Entirely in 24P HD
• Ireland Travel Documentary Shot in HD
• Project Of Veteran Production Company
• Technical Comparison Of 1920x1080 VTRs
• Panasonic Hosts Side-By-Side Event At ITS Forum
• Post Group Implements HD Equipment
• Used For In Dailies/Screenings of Feature
• NTV Demos New Coding Systems AT NAB
• Introduced three newly-developed systems
• APS-Seattle Upgrades Its HD Edit Suite To 1080p/24i
• Facility Now Has Two 24P Linear Editing Suites
• Roland House Provides HD Post
• For Discovery Channel's Eco-Challenge
• Largest remote HD production to date
• Sony Delivers 1080P Camera To George Lucas
• Producer looks forward to making all-digital film
• CBS News' 'The Early Show' Goes Digital
• With HD Studio Cameras and Plasma Displays
• HD booster takes technology to the A.M.

  7: CHART - DTV STATIONS ON THE AIR

  (On Official Program Test Authority) 130 Total, November 15, 2000

  8: CHART - 172 HDTV Stations ON THE AIR, 12/13/2000

  9: COMMERCIAL DTV STATIONS REQUESTING A SECOND EXTENSION OF THE 11/1/99 DTV

  10: DTV APPLICATIONS FILED AND DTV BUILD OUT

  11: COMMERCIAL DTV STATIONS REQUESTS FOR EXTENSION

  COST

  Full Report - All Sections $495, or $75 Per Section.
  Major Credit Cards Accepted

  DELIVERY

  Via e-mail as attached Microsoft Word file/s (zip format).

  To order or for more information, contact SCRI at: tbeyer@digitalmedianet.com