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| NH perspective WENH, the New Hampshire PBS station, shutdown analog Tuesday and moved DTV from temporary UHF to permanent VHF channel.
I volunteered to man the help desk. Back in January WENH and WMUR did a joint DTV readiness event. At that time took 1300 calls. Tuesday we only took about 50. This was not a combined event WMUR will not be shutting down analog until June 12.
At least in NH situation does not appear as dire as doomsayers predicted. There are bound to be problems from any change of this magnitude but I think people are better prepared then pundits think.
Bulk of the calls I took were frustration over delays in getting coupons, non-availability of DC powered converter boxes and technical problems getting all the pieces to play together. This did not come as a surprise to anyone I spoke to.
All in all I found Tuesday's experience reassuring.
/tom |
