[mythtv-users] US to postpone analog TV death

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Jan 27 16:29:30 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:44:40PM +0000, Mike Perkins wrote:
> jedi wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 08:15:58PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>>> Perhaps true, but in the long run this drawn-out saga would probably 
>>> be cheaper i the long run if the government just bought satellite 
>>> service for these folks. How many can there be?
>>
>> ...better yet: encourage the large broadcast superstations to go to
>> "freesat" so that all of this cable nonsense goes the way of the do-do.
>> Of course we all know that the government is not going to do anything
>> sensible or pro consumer or efficient.
>>
> Please, no! In the UK, we already have street after street and many 
> blocks of flats disfigured by Sky dishes, one per dwelling. At least 
> cable, well 90% of it, goes underground.

     Dishies are not so bad.

     At least they don't blight the landscape like a big yagi or bowtie
antenna can.

>
> I understand the argument for satellite usage in rural areas, and I've no 
> complaint with that, but villages/towns/cities should have all the  
> infrastructure underground, whoever is running it.

     ...yeah. But someone gets to "own" that infastructure.

>
> It's just a shame that most cable operators on both sides of the pond 
> seem to be  so incompetent or just plain evil.

     No argument there. 


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