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join:2005-01-21
Irving, TX | DTV Deputy Program Quiz Take the Quiz, get a passing grade and earn a certificate to educate others on DTV
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VideoGuy
@verizon.net | Case in Freaking Point What was going to be a train wreck will now be a disaster. | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | So has the world ended yet? Just checking | |
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LordFlux
join:2005-04-20
Warner Robins, GA | Re: So has the world ended yet? Yup. I can hear the screaming outside my window. "I want my... I want my... I want my MTV!" | |
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jhwk
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join:2000-07-31
Lindsborg, KS | Conversion payments Here they are paying for converters for those who have not updated their TVs. What I would like to know is what happened to the checks I should have gotten when 8-track was dumped for cassettes and Beta gave way to VHS? I got screwed! | |
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tschmidt
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join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
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| Re: Conversion payments said by jhwk  :What I would like to know is what happened to the checks I should have gotten when 8-track was dumped for cassettes and Beta gave way to VHS? I got screwed! That's because market choosing VHS over Beta not government taking your property, very different thing.
Federal Government mandated conversion from analog to digital TV broadcast in effect rendering your property worthless. They auctioned off portion of TV spectrum (channels 52-69) for new services and used a portion of that money about 10% to compensate citizens via the coupon program.
quote:
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
»www.law.cornell.edu/constitution···hts.html
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DTV
@qwest.net | Re: Conversion payments Let the transition happen. This has been promoted for the last two years. If the public does not get the new Digital signal, they get what they deserve. | |
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swerve
join:2000-10-20
La Habra, CA
|  Yeah we're ready... to fall off a cliff !!!
From what I have read it seems to me that this changeover is going to be one massive crap shoot as to whether or not all the digital signals aimed at a given market will actually reach some, most or all of those in that market. How many people in the sticks are going to buy new equipment in search of signals that don't even reach them?
This is kind of like building a huge new nationwide digital mobile phone network, selling everyone a new handset and then telling everyone that on such and such a date the whole system goes live and everything will work perfectly. (Good luck!)
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| pgoelz
join:2001-12-26
Rochester, MI
| Re: Yeah we're ready... to fall off a cliff !!! I have said for a couple years that this might be the end of OTA broadcasting. I think broadcasters were struggling before the transition and I seriously doubt that the transition will INCREASE viewership. Fewer eyeballs means lower ad revenue.
One thing I have noticed, though, is that a couple of the locals here are running old TV shows on their subchannels. I have very little interest in what is on the primary channels these days but the subchannels are offering some interesting alternatives.
Of the two channels here in Detroit that switched last night, I can only receive channel 20. And they screwed it up. At cutover time, they switched to a continuous loop announcing the change and outlining how to get digital.... but they didn't shut off the program audio from their regular program feed for a while. So for a couple minutes you saw the station manager talking and heard a sitcom. I guess at midnight, they had the "B" team on duty?
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swerve
join:2000-10-20
La Habra, CA
1 edit | Re: Yeah we're ready... to fall off a cliff !!! I'd like to see that... a resurgence of OTA... or even better... a decent alternative to pay tv!
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join:2001-12-26
Rochester, MI
| said by tschmidt :said by pgoelz :I have said for a couple years that this might be the end of OTA broadcasting. Impossible to tell for sure but I'd argue DTV may kindle somewhat of a resurgence in OTA interest. /tom It may re-kindle an interest in OTA from a picture quality standpoint but at least for me, I don't care how good the picture is.... if the programming itself sucks glue, I'm not going to waste my time watching it. Currently, I think the "vast wasteland" quote from Newton Minnow is accurate, if understated.
And I have to say that these days it isn't much better on cable. We get about 70 channels and I have to say that I only ever watch maybe 10 of them. Maybe less. I yearn for the good old days when TLC, Bravo, A&E, TVLand, SciFi had worthwhile programming. But no more. IMO.
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goldenraysofsun
@comcast.net
| Deadline I don't watch much tv, I don't have cable or satellite and I won't be buying that darn converter box no matter how long they push back that deadline.
People had plenty of time to realize the change was coming, ponder over what to do about it and then do it (or not to). | |
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Xenomangus
@navy.mil
| Hotels/Motels... how will they be affected? Im not sure if this has been covered somewhere else in the forums but...
I have noticed that most "cheap" hotel/motel chains (e.g. Motel 6, La Quinta etc.) subscribe to analog and split the signal to each room - I wonder how many hotel managers are going to get phone calls from guests with "Why TF doesn't the TV in my room work?!?!?" questions?
I seriously doubt hotel chains such as these are prepared to install either OTA HD capable TV's in each room or Cable boxes in each room for that matter - its going to get interesting! | |
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aaronwt
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join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
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| Re: Hotels/Motels... how will they be affected? said by Xenomangus :
Im not sure if this has been covered somewhere else in the forums but...
I have noticed that most "cheap" hotel/motel chains (e.g. Motel 6, La Quinta etc.) subscribe to analog and split the signal to each room - I wonder how many hotel managers are going to get phone calls from guests with "Why TF doesn't the TV in my room work?!?!?" questions?
I seriously doubt hotel chains such as these are prepared to install either OTA HD capable TV's in each room or Cable boxes in each room for that matter - its going to get interesting!
Are you sure they aren't subscribed to digital and just push it out as analog? The few installs I've been on with large complexes have involved one DirecTv dish and a DirecTV box for each channel. Then it is sent out on specific channels as an analog signal.
So there might be 75 boxes for 75 channels but they can all be viewed with a non digital TV. | |
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lwoodb
@bellsouth.net
| Map of DTV Stations There's a Map of TV Stations over at »tvmap.org that shows which networks transitioned on the 17th.
It's interesting that some areas of the country that you think would be all digital - like Silicon Valley - had only a few stations make the transition. | |
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Luckily we are able to receive two PBS stations out of Boston WGBH, WGBX and WENH out of New Hampshire.