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|  BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Those numbers as way wrong. | |
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| | | | Re: WTF Yep. As usual, the gooberment has it all wrong. No way 2.5 mil don't know... | |
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| | | | | Re: WTF "No way 2.5 mil don't know.."
More like 2.5 Million don't care. | |
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| | | 2.5 Million people think mankind walked with the dinosaurs. Coincidence?  | |
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| | NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:4 | Re: WTF The last time somebody cracked that joke, my grandmother died from falling off of her dinosaur, she was laughing so hard ...  | |
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| |  cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5 | You mean the Flintstones weren't a documentary? | |
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| | | More like a spider hole, a remote shack in Montana with a penchant for tenants that write manifestos, or any other double super background secret undisclosed location. If we're very very quiet ... you can almost hear them rattle their nosechains!  | |
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| | | They live underneeth a rocky planet rofllllll!!! | |
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| | | the planet is called - I give a shit about TV | |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
1 edit | Its about time I'll be glad once its finally over (I've been hearing commercials for +1 year now).
I'm ready to cut off TWC after June 12 (2 boxes on DTV work with 50-54 channels already with rooftop stealthtenna).
What I 'really' wonder is - how many will 'lose' their DTV channels as they forget (or don't know how) to rescan the channels. I expect a phone call from my +80 year old inlaws when the local channels shuffle from UHF to VHF.
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| | | Re: Its about time Yea! No more crawls and commercials about the switch to digital.
Boo! We now get to hear stories about the dumbasses who didn't pay attention and are complaining. | |
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| |  hambone42Peace, through superior firepowerPremium
join:2002-02-02
Manassas, VA | Re: Its about time said by battleop:Yea! No more crawls and commercials about the switch to digital. Boo! We now get to hear stories about the dumbasses who didn't pay attention and are complaining. That's right. Think of the CHILLL-DRRENNNN!!!
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| | If you don't know by now... you don't deserve to have a TV. Come on, how could anybody NOT know this was coming by now? Pull the plug already.
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| | | Re: If you don't know by now... Yeah, too bad for them. They'll find out soon enough. lol
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|  Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
kudos:2 | This is all FUD - my locals all switched with the Feb transition to digital as none of the stations wanted to pay to maintain dual boadcasts. Now mind you we only have 300K people in the area but still, no rioting in the streets, not even a peep. | |
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| openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Re: See charts here on breakdown of those not ready The 55+ are the most prepared. Might it be that the younger generations don't care about watching OTA broadcasts? It would be interesting to see how Nielsen calculated their stats. | |
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| | BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: See charts here on breakdown of those not ready said by openbox9:The 55+ are the most prepared. Might it be that the younger generations don't care about watching OTA broadcasts? It would be interesting to see how Nielsen calculated their stats. Exactly. If you havea TV but don't have cable and you don't have converter box but you don't watch TV anyways, supposedly you're "not prepared". Some people just use a TV for watching DVDs and/or playing games. | |
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| | Perhaps, their minds have been dulled... by watching too much TV. Sounds like a self-correcting malady to me.
Obliviousness is bliss... please don't wake me up! | |
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join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
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| Totally Clueless I think it would be safe to bet that if they are still clueless about the transition Friday night, they are clueless about many other things as well. TV is probably the least of their problems! I would be more worried about these folks driving and trying to cook for themselves. Then again, somebody has to keep the emergency room's in business
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| | Those lucky few... 2.8 million who completely and totally do not watch TV and really don't care whether it's analog or digital. (Yeah, Nielsen says they're in "the television market"... Nielsen is so clueless about who is and who isn't in the market.)
Good on them. | |
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| | | Re: Those lucky few... And there's those of use who wouldn't give Nielsen the time of day, or tell them the truth if they pressured.
I don't care if it's analog or digital. I don't give a damn about HD, either. I listen to the TV while I'm reading or on the computer. As long as I can see instant replay, I'm happy.
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| | | | Re: Those lucky few... I don't even listen to it in the background. I honestly don't even have cable hooked up in my room, on purpose. I mean, it's in there, but I have no use for it. | |
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| | |  tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Those lucky few... @in-addr.arpa ??
how? | |
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vag16v
join:2001-07-27
hereandthere
1 edit | And they know this how? As if they could really know this many people aren't prepared. I'm sure there are many who aren't ready, but I bet they have heard about it. It would have been there own choice to ignore it or just snooze. | |
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join:2004-04-06
Round Rock, TX | Tailgating Might as well outside the local Best Buy to watch all these folks running in since their tv's no longer work... | |
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| hambone42Peace, through superior firepowerPremium
join:2002-02-02
Manassas, VA | Re: Tailgating Sounds like a fun Friday night. The masses apparently jumped the gun, though:
»www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.a···atid=158
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| | | | Re: Tailgating Nothing against you jeffhambone, but the article you linked is one of the worse writing I've ever read. I won't comment on every bit, but I like the last paragraph. They say that "An estimate 9 percent of Americans are clueless about the transition.". | |
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 exocet_cmYou delete it, I'll find itPremium
join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
kudos:2 | Where did they get their numbers? Did they call millions of people and say something to the effect of
Nielson - "Hey, did you know that you'll lose analog TV signal this weekend?"
Callee - "Huh, lose my TV signal"
Nielson - *click* and add one more tally mark to the clipboard.
I mean, damn, they could've told em while they had them on the phone.
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hambone42Peace, through superior firepowerPremium
join:2002-02-02
Manassas, VA | Guess it's not Grandma, after all... If you believe Neilsen's numbers, it's not Grandma who isn't ready -- it's her grandchildren. OTOH, perhaps the grandchildren have all moved to Hulu and don't care about free OTA DTV.
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join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
kudos:1 | This is Obamas Fault Obama should have known these people wouldn't be ready, and made sure. | |
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| | | Re: This is Obamas Fault Sarcasim? | |
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| | | how in the world is it obama's fault? or is it just the whole 'well there is a govermental problem, so let's just blame the highest person on the totem pole.' | |
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| | wvcaverPremium
join:2005-04-17
Millersburg, OH | Re: This is Obamas Fault said by cornelius785:how in the world is it obama's fault? or is it just the whole 'well there is a govermental problem, so let's just blame the highest person on the totem pole.' Well it worked when Bush was in office ! | |
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join:2000-09-07
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| Re: This is Obamas Fault said by wvcaver:said by cornelius785:how in the world is it obama's fault? or is it just the whole 'well there is a govermental problem, so let's just blame the highest person on the totem pole.' Well it worked when Bush was in office ! Well, Obama hasn't overdosed on coke choked on a pretzel yet.
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| tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | He knew all about it. He got the reports.
He just doesn't care about people's right to TV! | |
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join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | finally Technology...ONWARD HO! | |
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| me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | Re: finally QFT! | |
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| | please there is no way for anyone not to know of the digital conversion. unless you were living on neptune. | |
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| | Younger people are the biggest not ready. Makes me wonder if the ones not ready simply don't care. Most people I know my age or younger couldn't care less about tv, not when they have the internet. | |
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| We MUST delay the transition The only option at this point is to delay the transition until the government can inform those still unaware about the arrival of DTV, and provide means for the continuity of their television viewing. End TV inequality!!! | |
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| en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: We MUST delay the transition What inequality ? | |
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| | | | Re: We MUST delay the transition Please - think about the children!!!! | |
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| | | en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: We MUST delay the transition And they 'need' TV - why ?
Nobody 'needs' TV.
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | Good.. ...Less idiots watching the boob tube. | |
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1
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| Just do it already. These are the people that are never going to get it, until you actually take it away from them. Anyone that hasn't gotten their decoder box by now either doesn't care, or will simply find out the hard way.
I betcha there will be people buying converterboxes on saturdaymorning.
RIP, Analog.
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| | over exageratted number? is this the number of just oblivious people? or the number of people they estimate are still OTA?
for OTA, i doubt that it's really that high what with low basic cable prices (not including the backwoods areas that dont have cable run to the houses or satellite). | |
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| | me thinks Something tells me the broadcast stations for cbs, nbc, and abc are blowin smoke. | |
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See charts here on breakdown of those not ready
