KA3SGM
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| Alfred E. Newman???
Alfred E. Newman |
WOW, I had no idea he was real.
Why is he running the FCC in the first place, and making my perfectly good TV sets obsolete??
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| said by KA3SGM  :That's the guy from MAD magazine. 
WOW, I had no idea he was real. Why is he running the FCC in the first place, and making my perfectly good TV sets obsolete?? LOL. Good pick up. They do look alike.
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Toguro
join:2003-10-23
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
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said by KA3SGM :Why is he running the FCC in the first place, and making my perfectly good TV sets obsolete?? Because it's time to catch up with the rest of the world. Your TV will still work, with a VCR, Gaming Console, DVD Player, etc. If you want over the air reception, you will need to get a box. But if you subscribe to cable, you'll still have plenty of analog choices to chose from... but Cable is going the same way... 3 years after Feb 2009, you'll probably be missing a lot of analog stuff on your cable system... again, to make room for new technology. Analog holds things back because it just takes up too much space... having a 100% digital system with no analog at all will enable your cable company to offer a lot more than they currently do.
Cable companies have been going after analog subscribers for a while. Cablevision booted all PPV and premiums off analog nearly 2 years ago... and because they did that, they are able to offer us nearly 40 HD channels. |
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join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
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| This is the same argument that was spewed to the masses when Clinton was telling the USA that we would have 40mb speeds in a decade. "It's time to catch up"....please. The analog to digital transition from Comcast alone in the Chicagoland area has been at best somewhere between a Clusterf*** and FUBAR!
Now our gov't is doling out converters and expecting this to be a smooth transition?
I can see it now...an immediate appropriations bill that pays freaksquad billions of dollars help in this pending disaster!
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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said by KA3SGM :Why is he running the FCC in the first place, and making my perfectly good TV sets obsolete?? You realize that the law that mandated the end of analog TV transmissions was passed in the early-mid 90's when Martin was just barely out of college. |
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| said by BF69 :You realize that the law that mandated the end of analog TV transmissions was passed in the early-mid 90's when Martin was just barely out of college. Well evidently he learned very little in College.
He doesn't know what a corporate monopoly is, only that he got paid some serious money from corporate lobbyists to create one.
Public relations studies?? Why don't I go more than a few days without talking with someone that has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that this Analog to Digital switchover affects them.
Digital TV is only an option right?? No sorry it's mandatory. HUH??!!! WTF???
That's the typical reaction from those that are not very tech savvy. The elderly?? Forget it.
They largely have no clue, the unfortunate members of the rabbit ears generation.
Black & White to Color, the B/W sets still worked.
Addition of UHF channels, the VHF still worked.
Addition of Closed Captioning, the old set still worked.
Introduction of MTS Stereo and SAP audio, the old set still worked.
Shut down of Analog broadcasting?? Well, so much for the OLD set, unless you understand what an why it happened, and you still need some tech knowlege to install the new converters.
CONVERTERS WHICH ARE STILL NOT READILY AVAILABLE, AND NOT FOR $40 OR LESS
Kevin Martin is the guy that can twist arms to hit the brakes on this, and give it until at least 2011, long enough to better educate the public, get the converters out there that are cheap and working, and assure no one gets left in the dust on this.
Unfortunately, he will unlikely lift a finger, unless it is to endorse another paycheck from Industry Lobbyists.
We are more likely to see him vote to approve AT&T's acquisition of Qwest and Alltel, and Verizon's acquisition of AT&T, before he would ever consider him doing something for the sensible benefit of the American Public.
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raybrett
join:2001-02-20
Saint Louis, MO
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| reply to Jmartz
If you want digital cable you need a box or some form of conversion. And we don't have to wait for Feb 2009 to miss the analog stuff. Charter has just lopped another channel from the analog expanded basic lineup with no corresponding drop in price. I have too many TVs (mostly old) to put a digital box on each so I will keep the analog for a while. I do have an HD TV, but it doesn't get digital cable so it would require a box. It does get over the air digital, but reception is so lousy that I rarely attempt to view it. When I first got that TV, I was 3-6 miles from the local stations and still couldn't get a decent signal with an indoor antenna. There wasn't (maybe still isn't) anything interesting enough to go for the outdoor antenna. |
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