Television:The switch from Analog to Digital broacast is set for next year.

NoCode0680
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Timown, I figure it was just local news sensationalism.
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ghiti 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1080	PirateNinja6 wrote: They're forcing us, eh? Is this not tyranny? They are "forcing" it because THERE IS NO MORE SPACE IN THE AIRWAVES. Cell phones are taking too much analog space since 9/10 people have one. So, get rid of TV waves and you lessen the congestion. It's just the way technology goes, it's not a huge deal at all. Y'all sound like a bunch of 75 year olds
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NoCode0680 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1454	I was upset when I was led to believe I would have to buy an HDTV, which was apparently bogus, but now I can't see why anybody would care. If you're still using the rabbit ears then you need to get with the times, you're only getting like .003% of the channels available.
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1994rules 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 129	retromaniac wrote: What a lot of people need to realize, is that the switch to digital is not going to affect nearly as many people as it may seem. It will only affect people who still use an old TV antenna (and how many people actually still do that). For anyone who has cable or satellite, those companies are handling the switch themselves and subscribers don't have to do anything...at least that's what I've been hearing. I only have cable downstairs, otherwise I use the antennas.

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NoCode0680
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So just hook the cable up to the other television sets.
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1994rules
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I do it... eventually...
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MrCleveland
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Once I get a job (If I ever do) I'm going to get AT&T Cable.
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NoCode0680 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1454	I kind of wish I had cable. I have Dish Network, and whenever there's a bad storm I lose signal. I just don't want cable because you can't get the sports packages, and I have to have my NFL Network and NHL Center Ice.
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auntiecoagulant 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1165	Wasn't it already mentioned a few times that you don't have to have cable or a new TV for the switch to digital? They have converter boxes that allow older televisions to receive the digital signal. Also some stations will continue to broadcast in analog. Here's an interesting article I found about it. http://dtvfacts.com/latest/531/lptv-converter-box/

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NoCode0680 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1454	Actually auntie people have been saying you dont even need a converter, that the cable and satellite companies are going to take care of it. If I understood them right.
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auntiecoagulant 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1165	Yeah I know, I'm talking about the people that were whining about having an old television and no cable.

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joecool85
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This is basically the "Y2K" of digital television as we know it. I'm sick of this propaganda hype!
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ghiti 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1080	joecool85 wrote: This is basically the "Y2K" of digital television as we know it. I'm sick of this propaganda hype! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Yeah, it's the end of civilization as we know it!!!!!!!!
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adventure_of_link 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 11018 Super Mod User Admin	Timown wrote: HDTV? heard nothing about that here. i just heard they're cutting the terrestrial signal yeah, I found that out the semi-hard way. 480p is a digital format. just because we are going to digital doesn't mean we're going HD.

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Funky Guy 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 2705 Account Disabled	Okay so I don't need a flatscreen for this upgrade? That's good to know. I do want to upgrade my tv to flatscreen some time down the line when that technology gets cheaper but I figure now I can just go to a thrift store which will likely be loaded with recent curved screen tv sets by people duped into thinking they need flatscreen.

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adventure_of_link 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 11018 Super Mod User Admin	if you want a flatscreen, that's fine. if you don't want it HD, hey, that's fine too. they DO make 480p digital flatscreen TVs.

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funguy10 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 1503	adventure_of_link wrote: for those of us who don't want to lose our precious older TVs: IT WAS ALREADY STATED (and has been for 10,000 times on other sites) THAT YOU CAN GET TWO COUPONS FOR DIGITAL CONVERTER BOXES, AND CURRENT DIGITAL CABLE AND SATELLITE USERS ARE ALREADY DIGITAL READY. that said, they needed the analog broadcast frequenciesf for emergency broadcasts. oh yeah, and they needed their money. Racists. Actually, The FCC will soon launch the Digital Emergency Alert System or DEAS, which, hence its name, is digital. It will still use SAME to encode messages and SAME is a digital codec. However, it will provide digital streaming of text and voice and even video! They will use it for radio too which will have the digital streaming voice. Also, do you think that in the future, they will phase out analog radio and use digital radio only?

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pikachulover 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 6110	I think they will which will suck because they will probably just tell you to throw out your old radios.
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adventure_of_link 5 years 3 months ago Posts: 11018 Super Mod User Admin	funguy10 wrote: Actually, The FCC will soon launch the Digital Emergency Alert System or DEAS, which, hence its name, is digital. It will still use SAME to encode messages and SAME is a digital codec. However, it will provide digital streaming of text and voice and even video! They will use it for radio too which will have the digital streaming voice. What I meant about emergency broadcasting is that the bands in the frequency spectrum that once went to analog TV, would now be freed up for police, fire, ambulance, etc. departments to use. Interesting to know that in the DEAS system, we can now have video transmissions as well. Will it be able to lock you down to the transmission like it does now? also, with the current EAS, you can stream text onto the screen. I bet you could also stream video as well. funguy10 wrote: Also, do you think that in the future, they will phase out analog radio and use digital radio only? Didn't they just release HD Radio? this said, moved to tech talk.

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fistoflegend 5 years 2 months ago Posts: 3811	Most of my tv sets are newer ones. In any case I don't watch tv much any way. I watch box sets on my dvd so I shouldn't have to worry much.

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