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All TVs must have digital tuners!?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:50 am
by bitWISE
Wtf?
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200506 ... 50QG0.html
The lack of digital-capable television sets has been a major impediment to Congress' tentative deadline of December 2006 to complete the transition from traditional analog TV signals to digital. The 1997 law setting that deadline permits it to be extended in any market until 85 percent of the homes have a digital TV.
Why is Congress so concerned that we have digital cable? For some reason I can't stop thinking about that XFiles episode where people become brainwashed by the television.
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:02 am
by +JuggerNaut+
man, talk about old.
the FCC, Congress..same thing.
besides, 85% of the homes in a given market is still a long ways away for alot of areas.
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:05 am
by Guest
damn rednecks
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:07 am
by dzjepp
So, if I turn on the trusty ol' analogue telly on Jan 1 2007, all I'll get is static?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:39 am
by Massive Quasars
ToxicBug wrote:damn rednecks
How does that follow?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:53 am
by S@M
digital uptake in Aust has not been all that rapid either with teh same result, govt is pushing back the dates.
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:36 am
by +JuggerNaut+
dzjepp wrote:So, if I turn on the trusty ol' analogue telly on Jan 1 2007, all I'll get is static?
yes.
the extra over the air bandwidth will be most likely utilized for HD programming.
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:39 am
by Transient
Whoa, this is news to me!
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:52 am
by Dave
I heard that the military was going to assume control over the frequencies currently used by analog tv, which is why the govenment is setting deadlines for a digital conversion. I don't remember where I read that though
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:17 am
by shaft
umm, i believe its 85% of the market is covered by digital signals. I think thats already done. Nothing to do with who has digital tv's. Anyway i heard like 80% of people who watch tv get it from cable, which means they will be unaffected. The only people it will affect are the people who dont have cable and who watch free over the air tv. And yeah, they want to free up the spectrum for other usage. You can fit like 5 digital channels on the same amount of spectrum it takes to run one channel now.
http://www.dtv.gov/
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:29 am
by PhoeniX
Their doing the same here... a digital box is only £25 now, and all of the TVs in our house (bar 1) have them,
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:09 am
by +JuggerNaut+
shaft wrote:umm, i believe its 85% of the market is covered by digital signals. I think thats already done. Nothing to do with who has digital tv's.
no.
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:19 am
by Oldfriend
well atleast digital services should drop in price , because i don't know alot of people that would pay 80 per month to get cable.
they either drop prices or their bread and butter income will suffer
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:50 am
by MKJ
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:dzjepp wrote:So, if I turn on the trusty ol' analogue telly on Jan 1 2007, all I'll get is static?
yes.
the extra over the air bandwidth will be most likely utilized for HD programming.
fuck that shit. i bought a $1150 teevee 3 years ago, which i was planning on using for many years to come
[edit] oh wait im thinking of dvi only [/edit]