Posted on 01/28/2009 10:26:44 AM PST by Sub-Driver
This isn’t a change in technologies because the new is better than the old or the market has “moved on”. This is legislated change.
And people don’t have the money for new tvs, don’t want contraptions added to their old tvs, and see it as a good excuse to finally get their kids off of around the clock television.
Just wait until they pull this same stunt on analog radio. No Rush in your car anymore.
Is there anyone left who actually engages in homosexual sodomy and doesn’t know about the HIV transmission now?
How about just shut analog down and the idiots who haven’t figured out what’s going on can read a book?
good one.
Yes advanced services like parking meters that send your violation to headquarters automatically.
Thousands of TV stations and Verizon Wireless hurt most...for the political benefit of Sprint. New communications bandwidth for public service bands is stifled. All for a little political grandstanding and payback for a Sprint lobbyist.
LLS
Where have you been?
The House GOP is voting “NO” on the stimulus package. It won’t mean a difference because they don’t have the numbers to stop it, but they’re making a stand on principle. The stimulus package will likely pass, but it will be WITHOUT GOP support.
Republicans probably won the digital TV vote because enough Dems opted not to vote at all. It’s not meaningful in the grand scheme of things, but it is far from the only stand the GOP has taken recently.
I think there may be hope for the Republican Party yet.
Actually the House has been pretty good so far, but they don’t have the numbers to really effect anything in the House. Its the Senate that Republicans are made of marshmallow fluff., which may be an insult to fluff.
‘No Oprah Show Left Behind’ bill momentarily derailed.
Truth be told, it seems there are a lot of stations that just aren’t ready yet, either.
There is actually more to it than reallocation of bandwidth. It includes digital rights management (DRM) capability. The digital signals can be encoded so that they cannot be recorded for later use. This is the same technology that has made MS Vista so popular. [end sarcasm]
That’s the downside of having sloths as your core constituency.
Folks, rich or poor, young or old, who wait until the last moment are just procrastinators... nothing more or less.
That's an awful big assumption... that they CAN read, that is.
Strongly disagree. At least in my area, the analog stations have been broadcasting info about this change for quite some time now, and have had coordinated times when the analog signal was shut down so you could check all the TVs in your home.
Anyone that does not know about this by now will also not know about it after a delay.
I would lighten up on the cooking sherry, if I were you. >:-}
TV will be very compact and huge bandwidth and frequencies will be available for sale.
LOL!
If nothing else, it showed a remarkable solidarity in the GOP caucus. Should the numbers hold up for the “stimulus” bill, there might be hope for the party yet. But then again, there’s the Senate.
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