Re: in the news today in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21038814 en Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:13:45 EDT Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:13:45 EDT Re: in the news today http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21044214 Stojko :
said by Steve Mehs See Profile :

As we all know satellite and cable customers will not be affected by the digital transition, so let's take a look at the numbers shall we. According to the total on the 2008-2009 DMA Ranking put out days ago by Nielsen Media Research there are ~114.5 million TV homes in America.

DirecTV - 17.1 Million
Dish Network - 13.8 Million

30.9 Million Satellite TV Subscribers
61.1 Million Cable TV Subscribers (top 25 cablecos only)
Plus Verizon Fios, AT&T U-Verse and smaller cable operations, you're talking upward of 95 million homes that won't even be affected by the digital transition right off the bat

»www.ncta.com/Statistic/Statistic···SOs.aspx

The whole transition is way over blown, the vast majority of America won't even be affected by it. This should have happened years ago, analog TV should not exist in 2008.
What about people with cabins who don't have access to cable, don't want to subscribe to cable or satellite or can't afford to subscribe to cable or satellite? Now they have to buy a converter box for every television that isn't connected to cable or satellite.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21044214 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:32:53 EDT Re: in the news today http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21040866 MadMANN :
said by chronoss2008 See Profile :

the ratings for every show dropped 75% for reasons unknown.
Seems people didn't buy into that digital crap and oh well the rabbit ears still work....
You don't have to buy into it if you don't want. You just won't have any OTA TV to watch if you don't. The rabbit ears are useless when you don't have anything decoding the signal.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21040866 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:28:12 EDT Re: in the news today http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21038940 BF69 :
said by Steve Mehs See Profile :

As we all know satellite and cable customers will not be affected by the digital transition, so let's take a look at the numbers shall we. According to the total on the 2008-2009 DMA Ranking put out days ago by Nielsen Media Research there are ~114.5 million TV homes in America.

DirecTV - 17.1 Million
Dish Network - 13.8 Million

30.9 Million Satellite TV Subscribers
61.1 Million Cable TV Subscribers (top 25 cablecos only)
Plus Verizon Fios, AT&T U-Verse and smaller cable operations, you're talking upward of 95 million homes that won't even be affected by the digital transition right off the bat

»www.ncta.com/Statistic/Statistic···SOs.aspx

The whole transition is way over blown, the vast majority of America won't even be affected by it. This should have happened years ago, analog TV should not exist in 2008.
Or you can look at it that

A) those 20 million homes with OTA only is 3 million more homes than DirecTv's subscriber base.

B) of the 95 million how many have multiple TVs. Some of which may not be connected to cable or satelite?

That being said I do think it's overblown because of the large number TV with digital tuners built in being sold and by the large number of digial boxes being sold. My local wal-mart is always being sold out of them.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21038940 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:27:43 EDT Re: in the news today http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21038814 Steve Mehs : As we all know satellite and cable customers will not be affected by the digital transition, so let's take a look at the numbers shall we. According to the total on the 2008-2009 DMA Ranking put out days ago by Nielsen Media Research there are ~114.5 million TV homes in America.

DirecTV - 17.1 Million
Dish Network - 13.8 Million

30.9 Million Satellite TV Subscribers
61.1 Million Cable TV Subscribers (top 25 cablecos only)
Plus Verizon Fios, AT&T U-Verse and smaller cable operations, you're talking upward of 95 million homes that won't even be affected by the digital transition right off the bat

»www.ncta.com/Statistic/Statistic···SOs.aspx

The whole transition is way over blown, the vast majority of America won't even be affected by it. This should have happened years ago, analog TV should not exist in 2008.
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Time Warner Cable Loyalist & Fanboy]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21038814 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:25:07 EDT in the news today http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21035264 chronoss2008 : the ratings for every show dropped 75% for reasons unknown.
Seems people didn't buy into that digital crap and oh well the rabbit ears still work....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21035264 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:43:56 EDT