amigo_boy
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Tempe, AZ
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| Not a good test ... ... when it's announced four months in advance. The results of the test won't be representative of the preparedness of the rest of the country because they won't have had the additional buzz about this topic which North Carolina will (as evidenced by this news item being picked up and distributed by others, like DSLR).
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 openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | Re: Not a good test ... You mean like all of the commercials and articles discussing the Feb 09 cutoff date for everyone else? If anything, this is a bad test because everyone else will still have 5 months remaining to purchase their digital receivers. | |
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amigo_boy
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Tempe, AZ
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| Re: Not a good test ... said by openbox9  :You mean like all of the commercials and articles discussing the Feb 09 cutoff date for everyone else? If anything, this is a bad test because everyone else will still have 5 months remaining to purchase their digital receivers. The stated purpose of the test is to gauge how many people are unaware of the Feb. transition, and extrapolate those results to the rest of the nation. I think that extrapolation will be flawed because NC news will be abuzz about the Sept. cut-off *test* even more than the rest of the nation will be about the Feb. cut-off.
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| Re: Not a good test ... This isn't necessarily true.
Everyday viewers of OTA television may not know who to call when the stations go off the air.
It already has happened with the CW translator station WDCA50 out of Martinsburg, WV earlier this year, when they just turned the station off one day to test why Comcast was having problems receiving their digital channel.
First, since OTA is licensed by the FCC for the benefit of the community, how can Comcast get WDCA to shut-down a translator station that has no requirement to stop transmitting in Feb. of 2009.
Second, there was no notice of the shut-down and only those who know how to use the FCC website to get contact information to WDCA will complain (there were seven of us according to the broadcast engineer I talked to).
Third, the WDCA translator transmitter served many viewers up and down the I-81 corridor from VA to PA and now there is no CW service for most OTA viewers within this area now.
Fourth, I was told they would turn the transmitter back on in a couple of days and include a scroll across the screen asking those who were viewing the station to contact WDCA, which never happened because the transmitter has not been reactivated.
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
1 edit | said by amigo_boy :... when it's announced four months in advance. The results of the test won't be representative of the preparedness of the rest of the country because they won't have had the additional buzz about this topic which North Carolina will (as evidenced by this news item being picked up and distributed by others, like DSLR). Mark Please anyone that doesn't know about this now doesn't deserve to watch TV. Jeez I've known about this digital transition for about a dozen years now. | |
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amigo_boy
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| Re: Not a good test ... said by BF69 :Please anyone that doesn't know about this now doesn't deserve to watch TV. Jeez I've known about this digital transition for about a dozen years now. Sheesh. I wasn't arguing for the test, or concern for those who don't know about the transition. Just saying that announcing the test (in a geographic location) four months in advance, and claiming this will be a gauge of the rest of the nation is flawed by the fact that it's going to be in local NC news for four months.
That will make the results inapplicable to the rest of the country who is getting only the normal buzz about Feb (which the govt. is apparently worried isn't enough).
It would have been better to have a nationwide "test" in September.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: Not a good test ... said by amigo_boy :said by BF69 :Please anyone that doesn't know about this now doesn't deserve to watch TV. Jeez I've known about this digital transition for about a dozen years now. Sheesh. I wasn't arguing for the test, or concern for those who don't know about the transition. Just saying that announcing the test (in a geographic location) four months in advance, and claiming this will be a gauge of the rest of the nation is flawed by the fact that it's going to be in local NC news for four months. That will make the results inapplicable to the rest of the country who is getting only the normal buzz about Feb (which the govt. is apparently worried isn't enough). If people are so unaware they don't know about the transition they won't know about the test. Those that do know about the transition well who cares if they know? How will that mess up the test? what some peole might buy boxes or new TVs earlier? who cares that's actually a GOOD thing.
Fact is if this test was never announced no more than 10% of the population would have noticed anyways.
It would have been better to have a nationwide "test" in September. No it wouldn't. A smaller test makes it easier to figure out if there is any issues. | |
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| said by BF69 :said by amigo_boy :... when it's announced four months in advance. The results of the test won't be representative of the preparedness of the rest of the country because they won't have had the additional buzz about this topic which North Carolina will (as evidenced by this news item being picked up and distributed by others, like DSLR). Mark Please anyone that doesn't know about this now doesn't deserve to watch TV. Jeez I've known about this digital transition for about a dozen years now. THANK YOU!
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