DTV Transition

RootDKJ · Jun 11, 2009

REMINDER!

In case you've been living under a rock or remote desert island for the past year, the DTV Transition starts tomorrow.

Some broadcasters are going to be starting right after midnight, but the FCC did ask the networks to make the change during the day if possible.

A few will be keeping their analog signals on as long as the law allows...right up until 6/12 11:59:59.

If you haven't figured this out yet...check out http://www.rabbitears.info/

GrilledSteezeSandwich · Jun 11, 2009

Fingers crossed my TV works tomorrow..thanks for the Public Service announcement!!!

billski · Jun 11, 2009

wots a television? :-o

mondeo · Jun 11, 2009

GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
Fingers crossed my TV works tomorrow..thanks for the Public Service announcement!!!

I would figure someone like you would have cable.

bvibert · Jun 11, 2009

I am SO sick of hearing about this stupid transition! I can't wait for it to happen, so I can stop hearing about it already! :smash:

It probably would have been cheaper if they just mailed converter boxes to all the households in the US that didn't subscribe to cable than it was to run all those stupid effing commercials all the effing time!

RootDKJ · Jun 11, 2009

bvibert said:
I am SO sick of hearing about this stupid transition! I can't wait for it to happen, so I can stop hearing about it already! :smash:

Amen to that...We should have done this three years ago...or at least in February...

Johnskiismore · Jun 11, 2009

RootDKJ said:
Amen to that...We should have done this three years ago...or at least in February...

I'm with this too! Can't wait until we don't have to see that countdown clock anymore!

bvibert · Jun 11, 2009

RootDKJ said:
We should have done this three years ago...or at least in February...

Why, what difference does it make? If people want to watch TV in analog then let them. Are they trying to free up those frequencies for other uses??

RootDKJ · Jun 11, 2009

bvibert said:
Why, what difference does it make? If people want to watch TV in analog then let them. Are they trying to free up those frequencies for other uses??

The government auctioned them off. I could care less about that end of it.

mondeo · Jun 11, 2009

bvibert said:
Why, what difference does it make? If people want to watch TV in analog then let them. Are they trying to free up those frequencies for other uses??

The original justification for the switch was to free up the analog freqs for emergency response use. Basically there wasn't enough communications bandwith for 9/11

Warp Daddy · Jun 11, 2009

One of our channels on our cable did this in February -

MUCHO problems encountered by those without cable -- several WITH converter boxes were UNABLE to receive signal a real effin nightmare . Took a solid month to get most of the problems resolved

drjeff · Jun 11, 2009

I've been part of a cable ready household since 1978!

Kickin' it old school back then with the WIRED brown box cable, with a grand total of 45 channels

GrilledSteezeSandwich · Jun 12, 2009

mondeo said:
I would figure someone like you would have cable.

just basic cable..I have to go to my parents house to watch HBO..I forgot to check to see if my TV works this morning..

GrilledSteezeSandwich · Jun 12, 2009

I thought this had to do with having an HDTV..not cable..darn..like certain TVs wouldn't work after the transition..

WoodCore · Jun 12, 2009

GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I thought this had to do with having an HDTV..not cable..darn..like certain TVs wouldn't work after the transition..

It has nothing to do with cable. The transition only affects those who get their TV signal through an antenna.

frozencorn · Jun 12, 2009

I couldn't believe the amount of $$$ being sunk into this by the gov't making sure everyone was aware of this. Until I realized how many clueless people we're indeed made up of. OK, I can get older people not getting it, but almost 2 million people aren't ready for this? Good God, people.

GrilledSteezeSandwich · Jun 12, 2009

WoodCore said:
It has nothing to do with cable. The transition only affects those who get their TV signal through an antenna.

That's gotta be like .1% of all people..

frozencorn · Jun 12, 2009

GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
That's gotta be like .1% of all people..

You'd be surprised. Yesterday they said 2 million people weren't ready. And they've delayed this thing since Feb.

I first knew about this in 1998. Eleven years later, 2 million people still don't know. I mean, what else can you do at this point?

RootDKJ · Jun 12, 2009

Yeah...and our govberment spent some $2 billion on education people.

dmc · Jun 12, 2009

I think I'm good...

Watching CNN on my IMac now...

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