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Digital TV Conversion
I got my digital TV cards in the mail today. This is not the most urgent thing for me, because I always have cable. As for the whole forced conversion thing, it makes little sense. Congress should not have had a deadline, and just let the conversion happen naturally as stations change over and people buy new sets. Maybe it is a form of corporate welfare to TV makers and converter box makers or something. After all, the government didn't force a conversion from 8-track to cassette, or from AM radio to FM radio, or from black-and-white televisions to color televisions. My main analog set does quite well, and I feel no need for digital signals at this time. I've got digital cable. My only complaint is that when you change channels, it takes a long time for the new channel to come in (but I guess all digital cable systems and satellite signals have this problem)
I can write a lot more about how Congress has messed up the TV situation with meddlesome laws. About the "local carry" law meant that the local cable company was forced to take 4 network affiliates off its dial, and we never had an actual UPN station as a direct consequence of the law.... making it difficult to see "Star Trek: Voyager", "Star Trek: Enterprise".... or even the "Dilbert" cartoon, which I once saw at 1 AM Monday morning. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in its first run remained nothing but a rumor to me because of this law which censored the UPN network off my cable line-up and prevented the WB from properly showing shows when it was supposed to.
One of the nice things about having two affiliates for each network, was that whenever one affiliate decided wipe out prime time shows, the other affiliate would show them. This happened a lot with Billy Graham Crusades, which would run on prime time on one NBC affiliate, but not the other. Or once our local network affiliate decided that "Beetlejuice" was bad, so they showed a very lame made-for-TV movie from the 1970s instead of airing the network television premiere of "Beetlejuice" that many of us were looking forward to seeing. Boy did that station get telephone complaints the next day...
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Digital TV Converter Demonstration
John Sanders with the ins and outs of the new digital TV converter boxes some viewers will need next year.
digital tv convertor News
 ABC News | Digital TV subsidy program running out of money The Associated Press - To avoid that, those people have to switch to cable or satellite TV, buy a television set with a digital tuner or buy a converter box that can translate Now's time to get a digital TV conversion box 10 things you need to know about the digital TV switch Digital TV Converter Coupons Are in Short Supply |
 Earth911.com | Digital TV Converter Coupons Coveted Washington Post, United States - Government officials say that means TV watchers have just two days to order coupons for the digital converter boxes they'll need to keep watching those Digital TV converter coupons in short supply Digital Television Converter Box Coupons Going Fast Government Coupons for Digital TV Converter Boxes Available |
Consumer Group Aims To Lower TV Costs Washington Post, United States - "American consumers are paying higher prices for digital TV sets and converter boxes and we think someone should stand up for them," said Amos Snead, Group tries to lower digital TV costs PATENT FEE CHANGE WOULD LOWER TV COSTS, SAYS GROUP I’ll let that soak in for a minute… |
TiVo Underscores the Mess that Awaits with Digital TV Switch U.S. News & World Report, DC - The software enables TiVo to talk to a digital converter box that can receive the new digital broadcasts. It's a bit clunky, but should be no worse than |
 p2pnet.net | The Dawning Digital TV Age TechNewsWorld, CA - However, anyone using an older TV with an analog tuner will need to purchase a digital TV converter set-top box. Satellite subscribers who view local TV Digital television transition nears VPT call-in invites digital TV questions on Tuesday If all goes well with the DTV transition, no one will notice |
Digital Tv Directory
TV Converter Box Coupon Program
Offers coupons for digital-to-analog TV converter boxes for those wishing to keep using their analog TV sets after February 17, 2009.
ALL-DIGITAL TELEVISION IS COMING (AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK!)
Federal Communications Commission ... TV Stations Switching to All-Digital? ... with an analog TV only by purchasing a digital-to-analog set-top converter box. ...
The Digital TV Transition: FAQs - Consumer Corner
Digital Television (DTV) is a new type of broadcasting ... Can I hook up more than one TV and video recorder to a single digital-to-analog converter box? ...
The Digital TV Transition: What You Need to Know About DTV
Digital Television (DTV) is a new type of broadcasting technology that will ... Converter Box Coupon Program. How to Install a Converter Box. DTV Shoppers Guide ...
ConsumerReports.org - Digital TV converter boxes: First Look
Consumer Reports reviews three digital TV converter boxes—the Magnavox TB100MW9, ... We hooked each box up to the same TV, a picture-tube set with no digital tuner. ...