no more Analog TVs
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I thought I'd heard that the FCC allowed it (the drop-dead date for analog TV signals) to be pushed back yet again, to something like 2011... -- modified at 15:34 Wednesday 17th October, 2007 Actually, it's 2012... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070912-fcc-to-cable-you-must-support-analog-tvs-until-2012.html[^]
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001only for cable, from that article it looks like analog's still being yanked in 09. Which figures, when the feds get the old analog spectrum back they can make a gob of cash selling it for something else. There's no money to be made, nor expense to be paid by the feds for extending the cable rollout.
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only for cable, from that article it looks like analog's still being yanked in 09. Which figures, when the feds get the old analog spectrum back they can make a gob of cash selling it for something else. There's no money to be made, nor expense to be paid by the feds for extending the cable rollout.
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dan neely wrote:
...it looks like analog's still being yanked in 09.
Yes. After Feb. 17th of that year, you will need to purchase a digital-to-analog converter box. $40 coupons will be available starting next January to go towards the purchase of such a box.
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dan neely wrote:
...it looks like analog's still being yanked in 09.
Yes. After Feb. 17th of that year, you will need to purchase a digital-to-analog converter box. $40 coupons will be available starting next January to go towards the purchase of such a box.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
Here in UK the set top boxes are about £30. And from last night the first area was switched off.
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
... the Digital Age has finally arrived ... :rolleyes:
Not here in Brazil. :sigh: The expectation is to arrive in December at Sao Paulo, January in another cities, and in June/2008 in all the main Brazil cities. :( :^)
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Click, this is more of a cultural observation. I don't know if they have BestBuys stores in Brazil but here in the US its where most of us go to geek out on the latest gadgets. If you are in a city here the odds are good that there is one within 10 miles of wherever you are. The fact that BestBuy no longer carries is a real watermark even no doubt.
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at Best Buy [^] ... the Digital Age has finally arrived ... :rolleyes: Steve
Yup, here in the UK, analog is starting to get switched of, one areas down already, like previously mentioned. I think sometime in 2009 the last area goes off. And my area isn't until next year. I wouldn't be to suprised if the price of freeview boxes starts to go up... i can see it know, the night before a swicth off, eBay: "Last freeview box - next day delivery" £199.00
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My digital age is 11011... Ah, symmetry. :rolleyes:
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Click, this is more of a cultural observation. I don't know if they have BestBuys stores in Brazil but here in the US its where most of us go to geek out on the latest gadgets. If you are in a city here the odds are good that there is one within 10 miles of wherever you are. The fact that BestBuy no longer carries is a real watermark even no doubt.
on the West coast, Fry's Electronics is the place to "geek out". Went there a few months ago to get a new CD drive for a repair job and walked out with $800 worth of stuff...how could I possibly pass up an extra external USB 2.0 500Gb drive for $110 and a ViewSonic 22" LCD for ~$180 (even if I already had them) :-O Steve
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at Best Buy [^] ... the Digital Age has finally arrived ... :rolleyes: Steve
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at Best Buy [^] ... the Digital Age has finally arrived ... :rolleyes: Steve
Here in Croatia, most of our 4 :) channels, broadcast digital signal (as well as analog). The main ISP offered IPTV last year for the first time..hm.. or was it two years ago...and offcourse, ADSL is still not available for most of the country :(
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on the West coast, Fry's Electronics is the place to "geek out". Went there a few months ago to get a new CD drive for a repair job and walked out with $800 worth of stuff...how could I possibly pass up an extra external USB 2.0 500Gb drive for $110 and a ViewSonic 22" LCD for ~$180 (even if I already had them) :-O Steve
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Here in Croatia, most of our 4 :) channels, broadcast digital signal (as well as analog). The main ISP offered IPTV last year for the first time..hm.. or was it two years ago...and offcourse, ADSL is still not available for most of the country :(
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All broadcast tv has to move to digital fairly soon i think 2008 or 9, stores cant sell analog tv's after jan 1 2k8, and cable companies in the US are more often than not closed circuit systems, and can do whatever they want on their sytem for as long as the want. granted staying analog probably wont do them any good if every one has tv's that wont use the analog signal. its enterily possible that my info is wrong or outdated, but thats what they've been telling tv stations in St Louis, my mom runs Master Control for one of them, and is very good friends wth the guy who upgrades and maintains all of ther equipment.
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on the West coast, Fry's Electronics is the place to "geek out". Went there a few months ago to get a new CD drive for a repair job and walked out with $800 worth of stuff...how could I possibly pass up an extra external USB 2.0 500Gb drive for $110 and a ViewSonic 22" LCD for ~$180 (even if I already had them) :-O Steve
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Funny you should mention that. The EPA has been coming down hard on film developers due to the heavy metals in film processing.
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repeat after me. It's cheaper online.
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at Best Buy [^] ... the Digital Age has finally arrived ... :rolleyes: Steve
Hmm... most of the younger engineers at my firm (<30) who don't have kids have HD. Most of my friends my age with families cannot afford a $500 US Television. Engineers with single income. Most of the older folks are on the fence - they have the cash but only about 1/3 seem to blow it on TV. Most of these words were frivolously scribbled. D
dave borski
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I have some magic jelly beans I'm trying to sell, online...
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