What tech manufacturers and suppliers have been saying about the impact from heavy flooding in Thailand: Oct. 12, 2011: Seagate Technology PLC, which makes hard drives, says its factories in Thailand have been operational, but it may have difficulty making hard d......

U.S. special effects company Digital Domain Media Group is teaming up with Chinese production company Beijing Galloping Horse Film Co. to tap China's growing demand for 3-D movies. The U.S. company said Thursday it will contribute its patented 3-D technology. The......

A look at how selected companies providing computers, components, services and related software are faring: April 11: Research groups Gartner and IDC estimate that PC shipments in the first quarter were ahead of their expectations, though growth was modest in lig......

What tech manufacturers and suppliers have been saying about the impact from heavy flooding in Thailand: Oct. 12, 2011: Seagate Technology PLC, which makes hard drives, says its factories in Thailand have been operational, but it may have difficulty making hard d......

A look at how selected companies providing computers, components, services and related software are faring: April 11: Research groups Gartner and IDC estimate that PC shipments in the first quarter were ahead of their expectations, though growth was modest in lig......

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but the story behind a picture can be worth much more, as Manor Township resident Linda Davis has discovered. Davis is not a photographer by trade, but her participation in a national photography project has led to self-discovery, greater involvemen......

  What the camera captures is but a fraction of what the eye of man sees. But that's still an impressive output, if an upcoming exhibit at Lancaster Museum of Art is any indication. Opening Jan. 6 during First Friday —the monthly celebration of arts and culture in dow......

To say Brooke Shaden is a shooting star is an understatement. At 24, her rise in the photography world has been meteoric. Beyond the fact that barely three years out of college the Lancaster native's distinctive work has already appeared in magazines worldwide — including Italian ......

Where to begin? More than 1,000 pieces of art have been selected from 2,060 entries to be part of this year's Lancaster County Young Artists competition. The work comes from students in seventh through 12th ,and let's just say it right off the bat: These kids are AMAZING. ......

The nation's largest cable and home Internet service provider is poised to narrow the digital divide. In a Dec. 23 letter to the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast Corp. announced that it was prepared to establish a new low-cost program to provide high-speed Internet access to low-in......

Hank O'Neal's pictures are worth more than a thousand words. Just ask him a question or two about his work, and O'Neal will share plenty of stories about the people he's worked with, the circumstances behind his photos, his thoughts on analog vs. digital art and his opinion of paparazzi....

For artist Dean Radinovsky, having an exhibition at Millersville University is something of a homecoming. Although his work has been nationally and even internationally acclaimed, the Lancaster native and Millersville graduate -- who now lives in Queens, N.Y. -- is very pleased to be havi......

After more than half a century of pen, paper and patience, Weaver's Store in Fivepointville is looking toward the future and — for the first time ever — at computer screens. The store, located at 1011 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, has only ever kept records manually with employees......

There is a recurring line Carlene Attick has heard during her six years as a Dish Network account manager. "If I had a dollar for every time I've heard, 'If you guys had the Phillies, I'd switch to satellite,' I could retire seven times over," she said. "I'......

Now it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene. Steven Courtney and His Band of Friends are all set to roll out the barrel Thursday at the Union Barrel Works in Reamstown. And yes, we do mean barrel. To kick off ......

For photography hobbyist Jeff Wiles, discovering Photoshop five years ago was "a dream come true." After dabbling in black and white street photography for 35 years, the technology opened a world of manipulated shots — layered, digitally tweaked pictures that have become Wile......

They call it "the wow factor." More than a decade ago, when Lancaster County officials saw presentations of a new statewide emergency radio system in Harrisburg, they were bowled over by the technology. But nine years after the county signed a contract to build its own OpenSky......

Joe Lewin, president and general manager of WHTM-TV ABC 27, said his station has received "a couple hundred" calls from viewers who can't receive his station now that television has gone digital. Those who use rabbit ears or rooftop an......

One of the great pleasures of writing this column is getting positive feedback from readers. A few of these people have become solid contributors. One such reader is Dave Goodling. He experiments with antennas, boosters, rotators and all manner of vintage consumer electronics. He uses an anten......

It was 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and Ann Wood no longer had television. "I guess I'll have to adjust to living without TV," said the 72-year-old Leola resident, who has been struggling to understand the analog-to-digital switch. "I'm not mechanically oriented. I need someon......

At 12:01 this morning, the 60-year-old television technology that brought us everything from "Howdy Doody" to "C.S.I." came to an end.Analog TV is gone. Welcome to the era of digital.For many people, the transition was seamless. However, for people who either did......

At midnight tonight, television broadcasts across the nation will go digital, and more than 2 million Americans will be left watching nothing but snowy static.According to a Nielsen Co. survey, 2.8 million American households, or 2.5 percent of the television market, are not ready for the ......

Even after months of warnings about Friday's conversion from analog to digital television broadcasts, some people with older TVs and traditional antennas still won't be ready. And when those procrastinating viewers wake up Saturday morning and can't get any channels, they may finall......

"Don't touch that dial," say the TV barkers.But beginning Friday, more than a few people are likely to begin flipping TV dials and perhaps cursing as broadcasters change from analog to digital signals.Despite months of preparation and warnings from broadcasters about t......

The change over to total digital television is set to go into effect Friday after a delay of about four months.If you're using rabbit ears or an outdoor antenna to receive broadcast signals, you may not be ready for the DTV transition and could require a converter box.The switch......

Some observations about the television coverage in Tampa, Fla.: Many of the TV stations use the same graphic packages and marketing as news outlets here. In fact,  WFLA-TV News 8 in Tampa uses the catch phrases — "8 On Your Side" and "Storm 8" — j......

It used to be that when you wanted a copy of a civil lawsuit filed in Lancaster County, you shelled out a few bucks at the courthouse and walked away with a stack of papers. Ah, the good old days. The county prothonotary's office — the agency that records and files civil court docume......

Randolph Carney was poring through the legal notices one day in November, looking for information about public meetings, when he stumbled across an odd ad. "Great news about your Comcast Services," read the small print, which noted that the company planned to offer a "Digital Eco......

It's a case of wait and don't switch. For years, television viewers were told to get ready for tomorrow — Feb. 17, 2009 — when a federally mandated conversion to digital would end over-the-air analog telecasts. But in order to give viewers more time to prepare for the d......

Congress and the White House last week passed legislation to delay the long-anticipated switch from analog to digital television. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 17, the switch will now occur Friday, June 12. Some stations, including two in this area, still plan to drop their analog broa......

One of my readers had been wondering for several months why he wasn't receiving WGAL-TV 8 through his digital converter box. He bought a $40 converter box for his older TV set, and it worked fine, except he couldn't get Channel 8. He spent "big bucks" on a new antenna and coul......

(AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is fining nine cable TV operators for attempting to thwart its investigation of a practice in which analog channels were transferred to a more expensive digital tier, leaving some customers without access.In a letter to Congressional leade......

It may not be the most pressing problem on his to-do list, but President Barack Obama is making the right move by asking Congress to delay next month's switch to digital television broadcasting.Despite considerable publicity about the move, it seems now that many of the nation's te......

Who says you can't go home again? Manheim Central graduate Jere Gish will return to this area to work at  WGAL-TV 8 as co-anchor for the morning news, filling a vacancy created by Dick Hoxworth's retirement Dec. 24. This will be Gish's second stint with WGAL, having worked......

Don't panic. The test will last 60 seconds, and when it's over, your life will go back to normal, at least for 90 days. At 6:25 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, Pennsylvania television stations will conduct a test of consumer and cable-operator readiness to receive digital broadcast signals. Thi......

Though the company is more than 2,500 miles away from Hollywood, TrickDigital hasn't had problems keeping up with the movie business. The company's partners, Adam and Gretchen Clark, started off designing Web sites in 1999. Since then, the business has expanded into the world of feature......

This headline in last Saturday's Washington Post caught my eye: "Move to digital TV faces language barrier." The article said many Hispanics aren't prepared for the switch from analog to digital television in February 2009....

A few weeks ago, my co-worker Melissa Julius looked frustrated, so I asked her what was wrong. Apparently, the television converter box she wanted to purchase was not available yet, and she was afraid her coupon would expire before she could buy it. Expire? "What is she talking about?......

"Journey to the Center of the Earth," the first of a new generation of 3-D movies, will be released nationwide today, and Lancaster has it.Penn Cinema, 541 Airport Road, Lititz, has just installed a brand-new Dolby 3-D system, becoming the second theater in Lancaster County with ......

Comcast, as the commercial says, has you covered. When the federally mandated switch to all-digital broadcasting takes place next February, the cable giant says that analog customers running a cable straight from the wall into their TV won't miss a beat. But because of some changes Com......

There's nothing like pausing live television to use the bathroom. It's the simple pleasures in life that matter. Thanks to digital video recorders and services like TiVo, you can watch live TV when it suits you, freeze it when it d......

A Reading-based printing company has acquired its second family-owned Lancaster County printing firm in the past three months.Standard Offset Printing has purchased Veitch Printing Corp. and Veitch Digital Partners, which operate a printing plant at 1740 Hempstead Road.The terms of ......

Artist Wil Lindsay sees a crisis in the steady and sure loss of tangible, historical artifacts. "As people switch from writing letters to writing e-mails, as they stop taking pictures using a camera and film and start taking all their images of vacations and birthday parties using digital ......

When the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry decided to reinvent itself this year, one of the places it turned for help was Nxtbook Media, a Lancaster startup company in the process of reinventing ways to communicate on the Internet. The resulting collaboration both exemplifies the new......

In a world of chain movie theaters, one man had a dream. In November 2006, Penn Ketchum opened the independent Penn Cinemas. This summer, he'll finish what he started. The Manheim Township movie theater will begin a $2 million expansion and upgrade in March that will add four new audit......

These are interesting times for Comcast cable subscribers.Monday afternoon, customers lined up at Comcast's South Duke Street office, picking up new digital converter boxes for their televisions.Last week, the cable giant announced that nondigital subscribers would need the boxe......

We are exactly one year away from the switch to digital television. By law, television stations nationwide must switch from transmitting TV signals in the traditional analog format to a more streamlined, all-digital broadcast on Feb. 17, 2009. Digital television, commonly known as DTV, delivers......

Thursday is Valentine's Day — the perfect time for you and your sweetheart to curl up to a classic romantic movie.But if you are a Comcast subscriber and want to watch any of Turner Classic Movies' romantic films, you better have a digital converter box.Beginning Thurs......

An update of the 1970 Five Man Electrical Band song might go "Sign, sign, everywhere a [digital] sign." Or, more precisely, a digital sign by Connectedsign. Displays designed by the small Lititz company already guide retail shoppers, college students, airport travelers, motorists......

A city business, crushed by the loss of a state contract, has been sold, its office closed and its building soon to be auctioned. G.E. Richards Inc. couldn't recover from the change in state purchasing policy in 2004 that triggered the end of its biggest contract, said president William W. ......

The digital billboards lighting up Lancaster roadsides are hard to miss. That's a good sign for merchants. But it can be a prickly one for beautification advocates and planners. "It's the perfect outdoor medium for us," said Brian Trout, director of sales and marketi......

Cory Ballard sat down in a chair under a bright spotlight, looked into a camera and revealed himself to the world. The Millersville University business major took prompts from Kristen Adams of Center City Film and Video of Philadelphia to discuss such things as his dream woman, his worst dating......

After fans exit the stadiums and the lights are finally shut down on Friday nights in autumn, high school football coaches' jobs are far from finished for the week. In fact, they're usually just beginning. Some coaches start as early as Saturday morning, breaking down film of the ......