Philosophy
"And the murderer is..."--NO SIGNAL!
It has been over a year since the nation's television broadcast stations were mandated to make all television analog signals digital. We were promised a clearer picture and more channels. Ya right. The analog to digital image is very fragile...pixilated images and then ending in NO SIGNAL. The image formats are non-standard...full screen to a CinemaScope image ratio. The extra channels. Well, mostly dedicated, heavily commercialized, weather broadcasts and an over abundance of religious stations. It has been a total failure. And the overall selection of programs is being taken over by the "paid program" i.e., an infomercial.
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- Bunglers Of The Spectrum
The following article sums up the debacle. "How We Bungled the Digital Television Transition" by Eliot Van Buskirk February 20th, 2009 Wired America's transition to over-the-air digital television signals, which netted the government $19 billion...
- 100s Of Analog Signals Are Severed
KCTV TOWER And so chaos and frustration begins. "Hundreds of television stations cut analog signals" by Peter Svensson February 17th, 2009 Associated Press About a quarter of the nation's TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing...
- Analog Broadcasting Signals Will Cease For Some
"Markets where many or all major-network stations plan to turn off analog transmissions next week are San Diego and Santa Barbara, Calif.; Providence; La Crosse and Madison, Wis.; Rockford, Ill.; Sioux City, Iowa; Waco, Texas; Macon, Ga.; Scranton, Pa.;...
- Dtv Officially Postponed
Four more months of chaos and cost. "Obama signs bill delaying switch to digital TV" Some stations have asked permission to turn off analog signals on the originally planned date -- Tuesday. by Jim Puzzanghera February 12TH, 2009 Los Angeles Times ...
- More On Dtv...kansas City Style
"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."--Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel. What a costly debacle by the Federal Government. "KC stations to delay DTV switch after all" by Aaron Barnhart February 7th, 2009 The Kansas City Star Kansas...
Philosophy
The digital mess
"And the murderer is..."--NO SIGNAL!
It has been over a year since the nation's television broadcast stations were mandated to make all television analog signals digital. We were promised a clearer picture and more channels. Ya right. The analog to digital image is very fragile...pixilated images and then ending in NO SIGNAL. The image formats are non-standard...full screen to a CinemaScope image ratio. The extra channels. Well, mostly dedicated, heavily commercialized, weather broadcasts and an over abundance of religious stations. It has been a total failure. And the overall selection of programs is being taken over by the "paid program" i.e., an infomercial.
Enter key words into the blog's search engine for many items on this subject.
- Bunglers Of The Spectrum
The following article sums up the debacle. "How We Bungled the Digital Television Transition" by Eliot Van Buskirk February 20th, 2009 Wired America's transition to over-the-air digital television signals, which netted the government $19 billion...
- 100s Of Analog Signals Are Severed
KCTV TOWER And so chaos and frustration begins. "Hundreds of television stations cut analog signals" by Peter Svensson February 17th, 2009 Associated Press About a quarter of the nation's TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing...
- Analog Broadcasting Signals Will Cease For Some
"Markets where many or all major-network stations plan to turn off analog transmissions next week are San Diego and Santa Barbara, Calif.; Providence; La Crosse and Madison, Wis.; Rockford, Ill.; Sioux City, Iowa; Waco, Texas; Macon, Ga.; Scranton, Pa.;...
- Dtv Officially Postponed
Four more months of chaos and cost. "Obama signs bill delaying switch to digital TV" Some stations have asked permission to turn off analog signals on the originally planned date -- Tuesday. by Jim Puzzanghera February 12TH, 2009 Los Angeles Times ...
- More On Dtv...kansas City Style
"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."--Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel. What a costly debacle by the Federal Government. "KC stations to delay DTV switch after all" by Aaron Barnhart February 7th, 2009 The Kansas City Star Kansas...