Posted on 01/15/2009 3:02:16 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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Hawaii was moving to all-digital TV before the Feb. 17 date set for the rest of the nation because of an endangered bird, the Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel. Broadcasters and park rangers want to take down analog transmission towers on the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano before the bird's nesting season.
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“dark-rumped petrel”
I dated her when I was younger. Or no, maybe that was Petro. Anyway, nice bird.
all the calls were coming from fat-a$$ed figians
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I have been predicting a fuster cluck on this for a long time. I am also predicting that federal funds will be allocated for ‘education’ and ‘training’.
Some people have a HD TV, but not an HD tuner - they need a box and don’t know it.
Some people (like me) have a set with no digital inputs. They need a digital to coax converter box and don’t know it.
One of my local stations will change the frequency their HD signal is currently being broadcast on - all in the viewing area will have to rescan for their station, and most people don’t know it.
The same local station will also reduce power at the same time, because the new freq has more range. Some people on the fringe will need to amplify the signal, and they don’t know it.
One local station has announced Jan 29 as their last analog. Another the evening of Feb 16, others right at the stroke of midnight.
A fairly simple thing has somehow been governfused.
without going out on a limb, I’m willing to bet the majority of these people sit home all day watching “the view” and other equally unimportant programs while eating bon-bon’s. I’ll further not go out on a limb and guess who the majority voted for..
But I do have a problem with this:
Two key Democrats — House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman of California and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia — are working on bills to approve more funding for coupons and postpone the transition. Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee are also including $650 million in funding for the coupon program in their economic stimulus proposal.
That's the real story. More Democratic pork spending -- with no end in sight.
Named after our new first lady?
I thought ears was going to stop that stuff../s
LOL! Not with Nostrils (Waxman) backing him up.
Given that something like three fourths of the coupons issued haven’t been used, that most of those have expired and can’t be used, and that the government won’t owe the retailers anything unless they’re used, it’ll be interesting to see if three fourths of the money allocated so far ends up back in the general fund at some point. They have enough now to keep issuing coupons if they take into consideration the ones that’ll never be cashed. They’d rather just stick their hands in our pockets for more money for the program.
ROFL..”nostrils” and “ears”..if nothing else, the next (insert time here) ears is President will be great for nicknames..
The radio spectrum would be chaos if the FCC wasn’t in charge.
I bet a larger proportion of the later issued coupons are actually used. Many people applied for coupons early on prior to any converter boxes actually being on the shelves at local stores.
Sorry, it is not HD it is DT(digital TV), big difference. Hi def is digital but all digital is not Hi def.
What’s to keep people from buying tuner with coupon, then reselling tuner?
...or selling the coupon for less than $40?
Only an idiot would forgo a “free” coupon to buy a discount tuner.
Only an idiot would buy a free coupon.
I think this is the nuttiest thing, and the FCC should have avoided it by demanding HDTV "monitors" to have ATSC tuners built-in. The nuttier thing is how many people have HDTVs but nothing set up to receive HDTV. I'm talking about cable users who don't even do QAM. They won't have a problem with the changeover though, but they are used to watching stretched 480i on their 50in DLP 1080p HDTVs.
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