[mythtv-users] DTV: It Has Begun

[jedi]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:27:00PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:27:32AM -0500, jedi wrote:
> > The way the Europeans rolled this out seems remarkably more sensible.
> > Not everyone wants to toss out their old sets or spend a lot of money
> > to buy new equipment. Cheaper "future proof" sets should have been on
> > the market along time before the switchover.
> 
> Well, my sister bought a $250 27" Sylvania CRT set at least a year ago
> and possibly more, that is OTA ATSC compliant.  So it was hapening, just
> below the radar.
> 
> The problem is that the TV set universe doesn't *turn* that fast.

    Well, yeah. That's sort of the problem. They still broadcast B/W
content from the dawn of time. You can even see this on the new fancy
ATSC HD stations.

    Rawhide: on the local HD ABC affiliate.

    Nimoy comes off Vulcan even as an Apache.