[mythtv-users] US to postpone analog TV death

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Sun Jan 25 02:53:45 UTC 2009


steve wrote:
> what i dont understand is how could ANYONE NOT KNOW this was happening?
>   
My understanding is only part of the problem in Hawaii came from people 
who were uninformed.  Another problem was people in rural areas who did 
the right thing by buying converter boxes only to find that they were on 
the wrong side of the "digital cliff" and couldn't get any TV at all, 
and also that the boxes were non-returnable.  Many of those people have 
since been told by TV station owners that they will simply not be 
getting broadcast TV anymore, at least not for the foreseeable future.  
This is not a recipe for a happy populace.  To them the 
analog-to-digital transition took away something that was working just 
fine and replaced it with something that doesn't work at all.



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