KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T Yahoo
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 ·Cox HSI
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1 edit | Hmm
What's this about 60 mhz will be used for wireless broadband... Some national wireless plan I didn't hear about?
This must be the so called "White space" unlicensed spectrum. Uh, yeah. Can we say interference... lol. [Shakes head]... What is up with the FCC. Crazy. |
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Chuckles
Premium
join:2006-03-04
Saint Paul, MN
| This day.
This day is going to be friggin' hilarious. They'll be zombies out wandering the streets, drooling, "where's my television?" By then I will probably be one of them.
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| You're still getting OTA signals?
Seriously, I didn't even think there were that many people using OTA for TV service anymore. HD Cable is where it's at, at least for me.
Nothing wrong with digital, as long as it looks better. Wave goodbye to static.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK
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| reply to Chuckles
I'm betting the stations will run ads and even scrolls near the end to warn people. If you get caught out, well, either 1) you don't watch hardly any TV anyway, so no big deal, or 2) You're an idiot.
We're gonna be bombarded with ads about the TV switchover... not to mention retailers pushing new HDTV's will hit you everywhere you turn to "upgrade". There will probably be newspaper, radio, and even billboards and government public service announcements too.
A lot of people may not know about it NOW, but I think before February 2009 that will change.
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Chuckles
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join:2006-03-04
Saint Paul, MN | reply to Nerdtalker
Well the only reason I have cable is because I get it for free from work. I'd never pay for this $#!+.
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meskinct
Mad Scientist at Work
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join:2002-01-07
Danbury, CT
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1 edit | Waiting to see what my Cable Co does
So has it been decided what the local cable companies are going to do? All digital? Still send analog?
In my case, I'm all analog. No STB at all. So, I'm waiting to see their plan and then I can come up with my plan.
FYI - Comcast is the MSO here.
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footballll
@comcast.net | by by analog
Funny the switch over is on 2/17 after the superbowl on 2/3.
I'm sure the NFL had a hand in that one. |
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
| reply to meskinct
Re: Waiting to see what my Cable Co does
Cable does not have to switch to all digital. They just have to make sure their equipment at the head-end is taking the digital feed and not the analog feed... and that's where DirecTV is starting to have issues. They receive a lot of their local channels via antenna the local POP's in the cities where they serve local channels... DirecTV has to go and upgrade all that equipment by 2009. Some locals send fiber to DirecTV's POP, but not all do. The ones that DTV picks up off-air are the stations that are in trouble if DirecTV doesn't get started upgrading their equipment in all the cities. |
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boggaf05
CCNA, SCVU
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join:2006-06-21
Gaffney, SC
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| OTA
I think more people will go back to OTA once they figure out its still free and the picture quality is better than cable or satellites HD because they have to recompress their signals for retransmission. Also cable or satellite cannot keep up with the changes in sub-channels when the local stations change them, for instance during march madness our local CBS station added 2 more sub-channels to carry 2 additional games, the local cable operator did not add the sub-channels. but if you are talking about discovery HD or something else that is a different story, but until more cable channels go to HD it is not worth the extra monthly fee. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Nerdtalker
Re: This day.
said by Nerdtalker  :You're still getting OTA signals? Seriously, I didn't even think there were that many people using OTA for TV service anymore. HD Cable is where it's at, at least for me. Nothing wrong with digital, as long as it looks better. Wave goodbye to static. Say hello to pixilization.
I still do OTA sometimes. |
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digiblur
Got Sipura?
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join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| reply to Nerdtalker
said by Nerdtalker :You're still getting OTA signals? Seriously, I didn't even think there were that many people using OTA for TV service anymore. HD Cable is where it's at, at least for me. Nothing wrong with digital, as long as it looks better. Wave goodbye to static. Actually OTA is where it is at. I watch OTA signals everyday.
Beautiful HD material from the source! For free... even works when the cable line is laying out in the street for 3 days.
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MASantangelo
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join:2004-07-19
Pittstown, NJ
| How about...
How about instead of making me pay for something I don't need and won't use (namely the Digital Cable) you either: a) Not make it mandatory or b) (preferred) pay for it for me.
I didn't want the stupid digital transition - but I have to pay for it to watch the two shows I watch any given day? wth. I just hope my old ATI TV tuner will still manage to get the thing right.
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sabersaw
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join:2001-08-21
Dayton, OH
| The vouchers.
Two 40 dollar vouchers... my guess has always been 1 50 dollar voucher. Not bad. Hey even after the vouchers are sent how much is the FCC gonna make on this? I think our taxes will go down now  |
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KA3SGM
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join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA
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| said by sabersaw :Two 40 dollar vouchers... my guess has always been 1 50 dollar voucher. Not bad. Hey even after the vouchers are sent how much is the FCC gonna make on this? I think our taxes will go down now $40 vouchers, when the actual retail price of the boxes is closer to $200 
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goldy
join:2000-11-14
Augusta, GA
·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to Chuckles
Re: This day.
said by Chuckles :This day is going to be friggin' hilarious. They'll be zombies out wandering the streets, drooling, "where's my television?" By then I will probably be one of them. You know certain issues haven't looked into very carefully or ignored entirely.
There are areas where cable tv doesn't reach. A fellow worker lives out in the boonies 30 mile drive to work and the cable tv said he'd have to pay 6000 bucks to run cable out there not to mention the 60 bucks a month for sevice and 8 bucks a month for the converter. and since there are just three farms out there, he'd have to sign a 1 year agreement.
Where can one buy a separate converter besides comcast or other cable companies. haven't seen any stand alone converters advertised except in expensive tv's
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000
clubs: | reply to footballll
Re: by by analog
oh oh oh. i wish it would be on 2/2. that would be hilarious. |
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Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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| reply to meskinct
Re: Waiting to see what my Cable Co does
said by meskinct :So has it been decided what the local cable companies are going to do? All digital? Still send analog? In my case, I'm all analog. No STB at all. So, I'm waiting to see their plan and then I can come up with my plan. FYI - Comcast is the MSO here. It's probably a safe assumption that at some point, they'll switch everyone to all digital. That was already done in chicago from what I understand.
Whether it will coincide with this other date remains to be seen. It might make sense that they do decide to do it then.
Why shake everyone up twice if they don't have to?
And clearly, this carries with it a lot of benefits for the cable co's from the ability to better control levels of service people receive to freeing up all important bandwidth for more HDTV.
Personally, I'll probably be amazed if they don't go along with this and make everyone subscribe to digital.
After all,they have the perfect excuse to do so in that so many will THINK they have to go all digital anyway.
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halfband
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join:2002-06-01
Huntsville, AL
| reply to MASantangelo
Re: How about...
said by MASantangelo :How about instead of making me pay for something I don't need and won't use (namely the Digital Cable) you ... This is not a change to digital cable. This is the over the air channels going digital only in Feb of 09
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CylonRed
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join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | reply to Nerdtalker
Re: This day.
My TV in the PC room uses OTA - I don't want to buy/rent another receiver for Dish and I don't really want to run more wire either... |
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iEvolution
join:2006-06-24
Ogden, UT
| Stupid..
This digital crap is dumb, yeah sure better picture quality, sound, etc. but for some of us (me) I don't watch enough movies or TV shows to even give a crap how neat the picture or sound is.
Forcing us to upgrade is stupid, I bet it will be further delayed..hell wasn't it supposed to be 2006 when it was originally supposed to happen? |
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