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|  Obama urges Congress to postpone DTV transition - MORON
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team on Thursday asked Congress to consider postponing the upcoming national switch to digital television, warning that more congressional action is needed to address potential problems.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of the House Telecommunications and the Internet subcommittee, said it was worth considering pushing back the date. "The prospect of leaving millions of consumers in the dark requires Congress to immediately consider the feasibility of the President-elect's proposal," in spite of significant logistical challenges, he said.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), ranking member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee....said it would be unwise at this point to set back the date of the transition. "Shifting the date this close to the transition without a sound plan to share information about the new transition date will likely result in significant confusion," she said. It has been scheduled for Feb for over 2 years. It is time to pull the trigger. They could delay the date by 5 years and the same morons won't be more ready then than they are now.
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| Re: Obama urges Congress to postpone DTV transition - MORON said by LiamJunket  :» news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10137···1_3-0-20President-elect Barack Obama's transition team on Thursday asked Congress to consider postponing the upcoming national switch to digital television, warning that more congressional action is needed to address potential problems.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of the House Telecommunications and the Internet subcommittee, said it was worth considering pushing back the date. "The prospect of leaving millions of consumers in the dark requires Congress to immediately consider the feasibility of the President-elect's proposal," in spite of significant logistical challenges, he said.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), ranking member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee....said it would be unwise at this point to set back the date of the transition. "Shifting the date this close to the transition without a sound plan to share information about the new transition date will likely result in significant confusion," she said. It has been scheduled for Feb for over 2 years. It is time to pull the trigger. They could delay the date by 5 years and the same morons won't be more ready then than they are now. Kind of gloss over the problem that switching to all digital radio broadcast means a lot of folks won't get anything even with the converter box. That's because it takes more power to reach further out with the higher frequency. If the switch over means they crank up the broadcast power so that people can actually receive the new signals, then yes it makes more sense.
Right now, my dad gets about 8 over the air channels in crystal clear reception, but when we tried the (among many) converter box(es), we couldn't even pick up the stations that had already switched over to digital. That's a problem because yeah, the digital tv is great and all, but not everyone will be able to get it with or without a converter box due to the laws of physics which many in Washington love to ignore lately.
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| Re: Obama urges Congress to postpone DTV transition - MORON A LOT of the stations will not go to full power until the changeover occurs. One of our stations is only running at 1/8 the power it will be running after the changeover. A lot of the stations will also be moving their digital transmission back down to the frequency range that their analog transmission are currently. These frequencies are (generally) the ones that have better range than the ones they are currently using.
Delaying the changeover is a mistake. The only way to find ALL the problems (and there are going to be problems) is to make the change over. When we know the full extent of the problems we will be in a much better position to address the problems. If we delay, the solutions we come up with are likely to generate more problems with the unknown issues that already exist. | |
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| I think it should be delayed. With today economy in the tank and millions of people struggling just to make ends meet forcing those to a digital cable subscription would only create another bill in their already strap budget. As we all know free is always better. | |
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| Re: Obama urges Congress to postpone DTV transition - MORON Knightmb
You can go here: »www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=···temid=29
It looks like wkrn is at its power and will stay on the same frequency. I just ruffed in Nashville and noticed that the location of wkrn's towers is at 199(south) while almost everything else is at 355(north), depending on where you dad is (you can enter his exact address in the link) you may be able to get a better idea of your options.
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KrK
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pspcrazy
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San Diego, CA | Re: Have to agree with you on this Man that would seriously suck we really need to move away from SD, and this would be the final punch in it's dying corpse. | |
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| Re: Have to agree with you on this At this point, only stupidity and procrastination are reasons to not be ready. I've been running digital for 9 months now. I don't see how anyone could miss the switch unless they don't watch TV. There's a scrolling message about it running through the middle of Florida vs Oklahoma right now...
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Jason Levine
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| SD as in Standard Definition? The DTV transition has nothing to do with SD vs HD. It has to do with stopping over-the-air signals and requiring your TV be hooked up to a cable/satellite source for television reception. That reception can and will include SD feeds as well as HD feeds. Switching all feeds to HD just isn't possible or appropriate now. (Not all shows are in HD and not everyone has an HD set.) | |
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LiamJunket
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| Re: Have to agree with you on this said by Jason Levine : It has to do with stopping over-the-air signals and requiring your TV be hooked up to a cable/satellite source for television reception. NO. It is switching from analog to digital for over the air TV - over the air signals are NOT being stopped. And no one is being forced to switch to cable or satellite TV.
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| Re: Have to agree with you on this what's the projected date now? i think there's been ample warning.
i still say let's do it on the 17th.
what they should do is keep the analog going for 30 days ALERTING people that this is exclusively on digital.
down here, i can get better reception with digital.
in some areas of the country, you may need an upgrade to a higher gain antenna.
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1 edit | Re: Have to agree with you on this said by robl27 :what they should do is keep the analog going for 30 days ALERTING people that this is exclusively on digital. That is already in the plan.
»hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a···84A1.pdf
Implementation of Short-term Analog
Flash and Emergency Readiness Act;
Establishment of DTV Transition “Analog
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Jason Levine
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Albany, NY | My mistake. All the commercials here have been saying that cable hooked up TVs are safe but over-the-air TVs will go black unless you buy a converter box. Man, if I'm getting confused by the whole deal, what does Joe Average think? | |
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LiamJunket
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| Re: Have to agree with you on this said by Jason Levine :My mistake. All the commercials here have been saying that cable hooked up TVs are safe but over-the-air TVs will go black unless you buy a converter box. Man, if I'm getting confused by the whole deal, what does Joe Average think? Yes, the average Joe is getting confused. Several of my friends were asking if the cutover on Feb 17 would affect analog channels they receive over their cable systems. Many are confusing the concurrent activity many cable companies are going thru of moving analog stations to digital tiers with the switch of OTA analog to digital.
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Lakewood, CA | OMG..just do it Maybe just to be safe we should go back to B&W TV!! C'mon mr Blackberry/MAC president. Lets not piss away tons of fed money getting ready to switch then pull the rug out. Do it already!!! | |
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| Re: What About The CellCO Spectrum Auctioned Off? said by pende_tim :Seems to me the CellCo paid a LOT of $ to the Federal Government for the spectrum that was to be opened up when the transition to DTV occurred. Funny. When that happened, there was no need for a massive government coupon program to get stragglers to upgrade their cell phones.
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