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Technology Stocks : Faroudja FDJA -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mr.mark who wrote (222)	4/4/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: Gerald Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 249

Yeah I think it does... when the stock is selling where it is... * Fox O&Os pick Faroudja. Karen Anderson 423 Words 2861 Characters 03/29/99 Broadcasting & Cable COPYRIGHT 1999 Cahners Publishing Company 'Set and forget' upconverter will help six stations meet FCC's May 1 DTV deadline * Six more Fox-owned stations have decided to use Faroudja gear to upconvert programming for digital broadcasts. The latest to purchase * Faroudja's Digital Format Translator: KRIV-TV Houston, WAGA-TV Atlanta, WFXT-TV Boston, WNYW-TV New York, WTTG-TV Washington and WFLD-TV Chicago. As stations belonging to a major network in top 10 markets, the stations must have their DTV stations up and running by May 1, * according to an FCC mandate. Faroudja's DFT converts any 480i NTSC signal into the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) DTV formats 480p, 720p, and 1080i and can handle 4:3/16:9 aspect ratio conversion. Other Fox stations--KDFW-TV Dallas, WXFT-TV Philadelphia and WJBK-TV * Detroit--have been using the Faroudja units since November. And Tim Redmond, WJBK-TV chief engineer, reports a "solid run" with no "major meltdowns." * "The Faroudja has been a solid performer," Redmond says. "We have the original box that was sent to us but we haven't had any major failures like any piece of digital equipment occasionally [has]." * WJBK-TV uses the Faroudja DFT to upconvert NTSC programming to 480p for its non-prime time broadcasts and to upconvert network-provided 480i prime time programming to 480p. The majority of Fox's SDTV programming (480i and 480p) has been with a 4-by-3 (4:3) aspect ratio, but the network has begun sending 16:9 feeds of The X-Files. * WXFT-TV Philadelphia is using the Faroudja unit to upconvert the network feed to 720p for prime time broadcast and for its DTV simulcast of non-prime NTSC programming. WXFT-TV Chief Engineer Diane Krach says * the Faroudja is a "set and forget" piece of equipment. "There's so much other equipment surrounding it that it's nice to be able to have a piece of equipment you can rely on when you're troubleshooting other things," Krach says. * For Chicago's WFLD-TV, the Faroudja purchase is another major step toward DTV. On March 6, the station installed its Andrew DTV antenna on top of the Sears Tower. "We did an evaluation of various upconverters and felt that this was the one that was going to give us what we needed in the short term," says WFLD-TV Vice President/Engineering Manager Dwain Schoonover. "Some did not have a complete box. One looked like it had a good handle on it but delivery and time frame was not available" when WFLD needed it. Starting May 1, the station will carry the network feed and simulcast its NTSC broadcast during non-prime time hours, says Schoonover. But WFLD-TV has not decided what DTV format it plans to transmit. I0607 * End of document.