It's not always technophobia. Companies constantly push out updates to all these apps and systems. Sometimes things that were working fine get screwed up by the update.
The Internet seems to be full of posts about how wonderful things were before the Internet. I remember people talking about how wonderful everything was before TV. Maybe you completed reading assignments in college staring at a book while students do that now by staring at a screen. Five hundred years ago people probably complained that those handwritten books were works of art not like those soulless printed books Herr Gutenberg turns out.
People tend to view things through a certain lens. As I said, technology is not good or bad. Every generation grows up under different circumstances. Radio was once the main source of home entertainment until TV came along.
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Analog channels over the air haven’t existed for a decade plus. Low powered stations and translators were the last to convert.
I did in big print:
Thank you. An antenna is simply a device that detects electromagnetic waves on a particular range of frequencies/wavelengths, in either an omnidirectional or directional pattern, depending on design. It doesn’t care what the transmission format is. That same antenna can receive the most sophisticated digital codecs as well as someone tapping out Morse Code by turning an unmodulated carrier wave on and off. It’s up to the attached receiver equipment to turn those electromagnetic waves into something intelligible.
The difference is the connection. Different topic entirely.
Good grief, you know better than that. I don't need to elaborate.
Not if coax is being used. RG-6 has been the standard for TV cable for close to 50 years, although the quality of coax is better now than it was then, thanks to cable and satellite TV. They used a Type F connector then as they do now.
Huh? The 40-year-old yagi on my neighbor's roof has the same F-connector as a "digital" antenna you can buy at the hardware store. It pulled in analog TV 40 years ago and does just fine with digital TV today.
ONTV was never that complex. Digital TV in any form hadn't been invented yet. They used a 15.734 kHz sine wave that was out of phase with respect to the horizontal sync signal, with an FM subcarrier for sound. A VCR with thumbwheel tuning for each channel could cancel out that sine wave very easily, and so could be a simple converter box that could be bought or built for $100-150. The VCR couldn't decode the sound (the box could, though), but if I was watching sports, then I could get the sound off the radio.
NextGen (ATSC 3) is a joke that seems to be on its last legs, even before it attempts to replace the current system. Unless the marketroids pull their collective crania out of their keisters, and soon, this system is dead.
