Technology

Some stations are ready to go with their full-power digital service, but others with "unique technical challenges" have obtained extensions from the FCC that will allow them to keep working on their transmission facilities after the Feb. 17, 2009, deadline.

The company coordinating the use of wireless microphones at both the Republican and Democratic conventions is offering test unlicensed mobile devices at the same time it is testing microphones in the convention venues but before the action starts.

Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home.

Capitol Broadcasting's CBS affiliate teamed up with CBC New Media Group on the state's first field test of mobile digital television this week. The two parties will use the MPH system, which allows broadcasters to deliver DTV to mobile devices including cellular phones, laptops and personal media players.