2002 - 2007 DTV Migration Trends Report - US TV Stations

Data for this report was derived from an extensive survey of US television stations. The report, to be published in August, contains survey data, charts, and summary tables for the following questions:

Table of Contents:

Technology Trends

• By when does your station expect to transmit a HDTV signal?
• Is your current or planned DTV service full-power or low-power?
• By when do you expect NTSC broadcast transmissions to cease?
• By when do you anticipate, up converting your SD analog programming into one of the high definition formats?
• How does your station expect to generate the revenue to pay for the transition to digital and ongoing costs? (check all that apply)
• Does your station plan to bid on the 700 MHz or Ku-band (MVDDS) auctions?
• If Yes: Do you plan to use the spectrum to transmit TV?
• If Yes: do you expect to transmit 8-VSB, COFDM or other types of modulation?
• Do you expect cable systems to carry TV stations' DTV signals during the transition period? Yes No
• Do you expect cable systems to carry the full 19.3Mbps of DTV?
• By when do you expect to be simulcasting 50 percent of your NTSC schedule in DTV?
• By when do you expect to be simulcasting 75 percent of your NTSC schedule in DTV?
• By when do you expect to be simulcasting 100 percent of your NTSC schedule in DTV?
• By when do you expect to have a digital facility infrastructure?
• By when do you expect to convert each of the following to HDTV? Facility infrastructure
• DTV video encoding
• Master Contro
• Routing
• Playback Facilities
• News Studio
• ENG / News Editing
• Creative Editing (graphics, promos)
• Production Studios

• Which formats and nominal frame rates do you now use / expect to use? (check all that apply)
• Which H/DTV video tape formats do you now use / expect to use? (check all that apply)
• By when do you expect to produce news in HDTV?
• By when do you expect to be using HDTV cameras for news acquisition?
• By when, if ever, do you expect your station to be engaged in any form of Datacasting?
• What type of information will be datacast?
• By when do you expect to create or repurpose video programming for distribution via broadband or via the web?
• By when, if ever, do you expect to be engaged in any form of multicasting?
• If yes, how many channels SD and how many channels HD?
• What type of information will be multicast?
• Re video transport, which video transport mechanisms ("real-time or non-real-time") are used/planned for use in your facility's infrastructure?
• By when do you anticipate doing any streaming video?
• By when do you expect to begin purchasing fiber optic equipment for digital video?
• By when do you expect your facility to accommodate HDTV (1.5Gb/s) over fiber?
• Do you currently use an automation system?
• By when do you expect to use automation in your local programming as a result of the transition to DTV or the addition of new program services?
• By when do you expect to use an automated "live" production control room system versus a manually operated control room with standard video switcher?
• What applications would you use a live production automation system for?
• How much does your station expect to spend in total on conversion to digital?
• What is your approx. average annual equipment budget (for digital equipment only) for the next 2 years (per year)?
• Which sources do you use/plan to use for H/DTV Conversion?
• By when do you expect to shoot or master in 24p?
• What sort of 24p interconnection do you use?
• How, if at all, do you deal with overcranking (slow motion) or undercranking?
• By when do you expect to use compressed video distribution?
• What type(s) of compression?
• By when do you expect to use non-real-time video file transfer?
• What type(s) of transport?
• By when do you expect to deal with recorded metadata?
• What type(s)?
• By when do you expect to deal with the material exchange format (MXF)?
• How, if at all, do you treat letterbox/pillarbox bars so as to reduce burn-in on consumer TVs?
• What type of copy-protection coding, if any, do you plan to use?
• By when do you expect to have an all digital production facility?
• By when do you expect to have an all HDTV production facility?

Product Trends

• What vendors do you see as leaders in H/DTV solutions
• What product/s that you would like to see is/are not yet available?
• By when do you expect to purchase HD versions of each of the following products?
• AD's / DA's
• Camcorders
• Cameras – ENG/EFP
• Cameras – Studio
• Character Generators
• DDRs
• Encoders / Decoders
• Graphics Workstations
• Lip Sync Measurement and Delay Equipment
• Master Control Switchers
• Newsroom Automation Systems
• Non-Linear Editors
• Production/Post Switchers
• Routing Switchers
• Telecine
• Up / Down Converters
• Video Monitors
• Video Projection Equipment
• Video Servers
• Video Test & Measurement Equipment
• VTRs

COST

• Full Report - All Sections $2,450, or $175 Per question.
• Technology Trends Section only -- $1,750
• Product Trends Section Only -- $975

• Cost per question/per product - $15o
• 25% Discount if both TV Report above and Production/Post Report Purchased Together
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