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Is the FCC too optimistic about the first mass DTV transition?
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 23 February, 2009
In a statement last Thursday, acting FCC Commissioner Michael Copps seemed happy about how the first wave of the US DTV transition went. He said "Thanks to the movement of the deadline, we did not have anything like the extent of disruption we would have experienced had every station in the country gone completely digital. on Tuesday."
He called on everyone involved to make the remaining ... [ read the full article ]
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looser_ur
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23. February 2009 @ 13:21 |
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Ha Ha Ha..........
It is truly hysterical picturing all the ghetto trash out there watching their favorite programs when .........BANG..........NADA.
That'll teach them to wait until the last minute to buy a tv that is somewhat current. Moreover, that'll teach them to rely solely upon the American Gov't to hand feed them a converter box. GO OUT AND BUY ONE..........or GO OUT AND BUY A TV. Sheeesh.........gimme a break. Get a grip people.
Learn German and "Kwitcherbichin"
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23. February 2009 @ 16:22 |
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Many of our stations here in SanDiego made the change and aparantly the largest problem was the STUPID fact that people didn't realize that they had to "rescan" the channels to receive the new digital ones!!!
Now that's just plain stoopid.
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BOW07108
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23. February 2009 @ 17:02 |
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No one seems to realize exactly WHY they decided to turn off all analogs in the first place.
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23. February 2009 @ 18:39 |
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Originally posted by BOW07108:
No one seems to realize exactly WHY they decided to turn off all analogs in the first place.
you mean so the gov't can turn around and resell all the newly opened bandwaves to make even more money???
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Sooner26c
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23. February 2009 @ 18:45 |
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On 17 February, half of our stations dropped the analog signal. It was kinda disappointing: No rioting in the streets, no bands of paramilitaries calling for recruits, there was still food on the store shelves... To the contrary, I woke up on the 18th, and the sun was shining in HD colour and the birds were singing in 5.1 Dolby stereo :-)
Actually, two of the cutoff stations moved their HD broadcast back to the original VHF channels, which made the reception a little better.
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27. February 2009 @ 13:23 |
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Originally posted by looser_ur:
Ha Ha Ha..........
It is truly hysterical picturing all the ghetto trash out there watching their favorite programs when .........BANG..........NADA.
That'll teach them to wait until the last minute to buy a tv that is somewhat current. Moreover, that'll teach them to rely solely upon the American Gov't to hand feed them a converter box. GO OUT AND BUY ONE..........or GO OUT AND BUY A TV. Sheeesh.........gimme a break. Get a grip people.
Learn German and "Kwitcherbichin"
Tough talk for a guy sitting behind a keyboard. I'd like to see you move that soapbox down to my neighborhood and repeat what you just said. I'm afraid you wouldn't make it back to your gated community...
Internet balls are always bigger than the real thing, aren't they?
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IguanaC64
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2. March 2009 @ 17:40 |
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Yep...watched analog TV fine for years. DTV signal provides nothing watchable where I live unless you like watching swirling blocks of video data and scratched CD's.
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