[mythtv-users] Obama Recommends Delay in Digital TV Switch

[Allen Edwards]

I have several large antennas and a preamp and RG-6U cable.  For years I had
great reception on all except channel 2.  Since this digital transition
started we have been watching DTV.   The picture is great.  Switching back
to analog I now find the signals have so much noise they are basically
unwatchable.  I don't know what changed but if this turns out to be like the
metric conversion I am going to be really pissed.
Analog TV is terrible and very wastful of the airways.  We need to switch
and now is as good a time as any.  I am writing my congrersswomen right now.

Allen


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> David Brodbeck wrote:
> > Doug Lytle wrote:
> >> Interesting:
> >>
> >>
> http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/obama-recommends-delay-in-digital-tv-switch/?hp
> >>
> >
> > Consumer's Union is supporting this, too.
> >
> > I have mixed feelings.  I'm not that keen on the digital switch to begin
> > with -- I don't think the consumer benefits are worth the cost, and I
> > don't like the way it introduces DRM capabilities into the official TV
> > standards.  But it's already been delayed for two years, and it seems
> > like delaying further might provoke lawsuits from the entities that the
> > government has sold the analog spectrum to.
> >
> > I actually think the worst-publicized (and worst-thought-out) part of
> > the whole transition is the channel reshuffling that's supposed to
> > happen in February.
>
> It was pushed as enhancing "Public Safety", because a tiny sliver of
> spectrum space was to be allocated for police and fire radios etc. This
> was a total scam, the real reason was to make money auctioning the
> spectrum space.
>
> It's perhaps too late to delay, the profits of too many corporations are
> tied up with it, as well as the money the government expects to get.
>
> People were not complaining about NTSC quality, heck most people were
> happy with VHS quality.
>
> I agree that including DRM was not consumer-friendly, but if we give
> them more time to play with things that will probably get even worse.
>
> beww
>
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