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Post by SamSpade on Jun 30, 2005 8:59:56 GMT -5
marketplace.publicradio.org/am.html (not yet updated this morning for today) Sounds like the government is racing into getting rid of those traditional analog signals and all those TVs we still use everyday... (well, unless you're going to have $50-$100 per TV lying around for a converter box). Maybe they'll push the timeline back again... maybe.
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Post by Amanuensis on Jun 30, 2005 15:32:41 GMT -5
Well, personally, I feel the transition is long overdue. My wife and I held off for several years on buying a new, larger, tv, because we wanted to get a digital tv at an affordable price. Finally, we got fed up with the FCC constantly pushing back the deadline, and got a new analog tv. The only way that digital tvs will ever be affordably priced is if analog tvs hit the road.
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Post by x on Jul 1, 2005 0:14:49 GMT -5
There's some truth there. As production gears up, the prices will go down. Remember when new PC's used to cost upwards of 10 grand? That was a LOOOONG time ago. Now they're pretty darn cheap. The same thing will happen with digital sets. The difference is that at the moment there's a choice. If you eliminate one choice, obviously more people will gravitate to the other choice. Thing is, I don't think NTSC quality sets are really going to go anywhere that soon. Cable and satellite will continue to transmit signals the standard analog way. I can see the FCC requiring sets to have digital tuners, but I'm not so sure they will (or should) require HDTV pictures. The set could downconvert any HDTV programming into SDTV.
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Post by tvtruthsayer on Jul 9, 2005 13:52:53 GMT -5
Could someone please tell me why I only get KSL DTV sometimes? It seems like when their power bumps I can get them.
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Post by x on Jul 10, 2005 2:04:39 GMT -5
Could someone please tell me why I only get KSL DTV sometimes? It seems like when their power bumps I can get them. Huh? Power bumps? |
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