Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
"The Senate acted responsibly to give the Obama
administration time to attempt to bring order to a
mismanaged process." (Jan 26, 2009).
More here.
"USA Today" reports the $1.3 billion dollar program
to offset the cost of buying converter boxes scraped
bottom on Sunday (Jan 06, 2009).
More here.
Analog TV Switch Off postponed ('til June 09)
What "trouble"? Our Satellite dish has beenJoseph wrote:I gave up TV a few years ago in anticipation of the trouble from DTV.
receiving digitally-encoded RF from the sky
for many trouble-free years.
Assuming you are in the United States, and pay
Federal Income taxes, you are sharing the burden
of this program.
The trouble is from trying to get reliable over-the-air reception. I think TV should always have remained free, so I didn't like when cable came onto the scene.
We pay for the program and give into the cable lobbyists who knew dtv would increase their business. people will just get cable instead of messing with the changeover themselves. The ones who try and can't get decent over-the-air reception will give in and get cable too.
We pay for the program and give into the cable lobbyists who knew dtv would increase their business. people will just get cable instead of messing with the changeover themselves. The ones who try and can't get decent over-the-air reception will give in and get cable too.
OTA (Over The Air) terrestrial TV is free. AlwaysJoseph wrote: The trouble is from trying to get reliable over-the-air reception. I think TV should always have remained free, so I didn't like when cable came onto the scene.
has been, and there are no plans to change.
The cost of keeping it free have been burdened
on the Federal tax payers, whether they use it
or not.
Is that bad? Why would anyone not use the bestJoseph wrote:We pay for the program and give into the cable lobbyists who knew dtv would increase their business. people will just get cable instead of messing with the changeover themselves. The ones who try and can't get decent over-the-air reception will give in and get cable too.
option available to them (i.e. cable service when
OTA is not practical)?
The cable operators are in a tough business, the
cost of external plant and maintenance is very high.
They have to compete with Satellite services and OTA.
Gone are the days of the "big three" in broadcasting -
a parallel paradigm shift to the "big three" of autos.
I've seen coupons with expirations in March,dtief wrote:I got my 2 converters - just in time, unless they print more coupons.
so they are probably of a new batch issued
after the program halted at the end of 2008.
This latest move by the new Administration
must be unwelcome news to the factories
that actually make the boxes!
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Congress didn't pass TV turn-off delay billBigglez wrote:Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
"The Senate acted responsibly to give the Obama
administration time to attempt to bring order to a
mismanaged process." (Jan 26, 2009).
More here.
Nielsen Co. estimates that 6.5 million households have not converted TVs to digital.
Re: Analog TV Switch Off postponed ('til June 09)
I recall other estimates that there were in total not that many over the air TVs in actual use today. Much less those that don't have an almost free converter already.Bigglez wrote:Congress didn't pass TV turn-off delay billBigglez wrote:Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
"The Senate acted responsibly to give the Obama
administration time to attempt to bring order to a
mismanaged process." (Jan 26, 2009).
More here.
Nielsen Co. estimates that 6.5 million households have not converted TVs to digital.
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The original "cable" wasn't really intended as the profit-making mess that it is now. CATV back in "the old days" was more of a help for smaller communities in fringe and deep-fringe areas so that they could get decent reception. There wasn't any satellite stuff going on and headends were primarily tall towers with lots of single-channel, high-gain, highly-directional antennas, each pointing to a specific station, many of which might be a hundred or more miles away. Now that the infrastructure has been laid with lots of taxpayer and subscriber monetary support, your present cable system is the high-priced access for terrestrial television, satellite-served programming, Internet, telephone, local access, etc. I know that in our area, cable TV is a lot more expensive than having a satellite receiver system. I don't know why folks put up with it unless they're eating up the high-speed Internet access and phone system all tied together.
Dean
Dean
Dean Huster, Electronics Curmudgeon
Contributing Editor emeritus, "Q & A", of the former "Poptronics" magazine (formerly "Popular Electronics" and "Electronics Now" magazines).
R.I.P.
Contributing Editor emeritus, "Q & A", of the former "Poptronics" magazine (formerly "Popular Electronics" and "Electronics Now" magazines).
R.I.P.
Re: Analog TV Switch Off postponed ('til June 09)
Dateline: Wed February 4, 2009
The House, by a vote of 264 to 158, passed a Senate bill that would reset
the death of analog TV to June 12, a measure President Barack Obama is
expected to sign.
More Info Here
The House, by a vote of 264 to 158, passed a Senate bill that would reset
the death of analog TV to June 12, a measure President Barack Obama is
expected to sign.
More Info Here
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