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100 Days left

jal41

jal41

There is only 100 days left until the end of the digital transition.

I wonder how many people are having reception issues once they install their convertors and realize the signals are not the same.

Also...are there any issues with the government convertor box program that have not been reported.

We thought election season would not get through. 2/17/2009 will be here faster than anyone thinks.
 
Think about the emergency crews that are going to be busy that day…from old people getting on their roofs and trying to move their antennas and they fall off it, because they don’t understand the digital transition…

Or, how about cable companies that forget the change over the digital signal for those people with lower tier cable service...

Thank god I don’t work for local TV anymore. I know the phones will be ringing off the hook.
 
KML-224 said:
I sell the damn things, so I'm hoping I can get that Tuesday off! (LOL)
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Good one Kevin. I've had 2 come through my register on the front end at the Southington Store about 3 weeks ago. It was the first time I saw the $40 Discount Cards. And about a month or so ago I had to deactivate 2 because they set off the alarm when I was covering the front door for the door greeter.
 
Yesterday, it seemed to be a let down for a couple of people. We ran out of the Magnavox boxes we normally sell and only had maybe 5 of the RCA model left. Are those any good? I have the Insignia box from Best Buy and it works fairly well. Maybe it's got a better tuner because it gives mt fewer problems with WFSB-DT (CBS) of Hartford than my own TV does. I have a Sanyo 26" LCD HDTV that I bought in June of 2006. Before anybody rips me for having the box when I don't need it? I bought it so I could compare its tuner to the TVs. Also, my grandmother might need it next year anyways. The two TVs up here have digital tuners. Hers downstairs does not.
 
I've got a surefire way to make money during the hard times...sell concrete bunkers, fake nose and glasses sets, and leftover '50s bomb shelters to all the television station general managers, program directors, and chief engineers who'll surely need them on and after Feburary 17, 2009!

Stations are playing games with power levels, coverage maps, and programming in this great digital fiasco...get ready for an explosion of complaints and protest when analog goes away. I know of several stations whose actual V-Soft (computer digital coverage profile)map bears little resemblance to the exaggerated coverage maps they distribute. Even with an upgraded antenna hooked to a premium digital converter box or digital tuner-equipped set, dead spots abound even on level terrain.

The FCC got the NTSC color transition right in '53, FM Stereo right in '61, and BTSC TV stereo right in '84. How did they lose their minds with AM Stereo and Digital Television by botching them up so badly?
 
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