To: backwoods-engineer
"They" went 100% digital because vestigial-sideband AM is a noisy and wasteful method of sending video over radio waves. There's no conspiracy; you can send 3 digital channels (depending on picture resolution) in the same bandwidth where only 1 analog channel would fit. Didn't the government also want TV stations to move to digital so they could auction off the bandspace for wi-fi which is believed to be a better application?
208 posted on
10/23/2011 6:39:20 AM PDT by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: usconservative
What about old analog TVs without any attached digital gizmos. Could they ever be used as an alternate communication system?
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