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Re: Wilmington, NC to test "total" analog TV cutoff
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:22:22 -0700
________________________________________ From: Alan [alan () clueserver org] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:35 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Wilmington, NC to test "total" analog TV cutoff
In conjunction with the FCC, it appears that Wilmington, North Carolina (135th largest TV market in U.S.) will shut down all but one of their analog TV signals starting Sept. 8, instead of waiting for next February. The idea is to test people's reactions and awareness of the DTV transition.
Awareness is not going to be the issue, quality of service is going to be the issue. I have both digital HD (via antenna) and satellite service. (I can't get HD satellite signal unless my neighbours lose some trees.) The digital HD signal fades in and out on a regular basis. (I don't live in a rural area either. I live in a heavily populated part of SE Portland, Oregon.) Analog signals are much more resilient to interference and signal loss. In many cases I expect people in the switchover will get digital signal but the quality will be so much inferior than the old analog signal that they will wonder why it is happening it at all and raise bloody hell. Either it is going to force people to move to cable or satellite or get them to stop watching TV altogether. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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