Television digital switch delayed?

I disagree with the delay as well. In my city, the TV stations are going to shut off their analog stations anyway. The electric bill for a TV transmitter is very high. Most stations simply didn't budget the added electric cost and don't want to continue paying it. There may also be expensive space rent, both for the transmitting equipment and the antenna on the tower.

Apparently the new bill doesn't require a TV station to continue broadcasting in analog. A short quote from the article below: "276 stations have told the commission that they plan to shut off their analog signals on the current transition date of Feb. 17".

The switchover in the US was indeed a deadline. The analog transmitters were to be shut off on Feb. 17 by FCC order. That order has now been delayed until June 12 by Congress.

The "delay" is just hyperbole. The fact is all analog television broadcast licenses have already expired, and no television broadcaster is currently legally required to operate in the analog mode. Several hundred have already shut down analog rather than make expesive repairs that would be of benefit for only a couple of weeks. Many hundred more have made firm commitments to shut off analog on Februrary 17, and will do so despite the "delay" legislation. Considering that most people get television via cable or satellite, the deadline is mostly a non event. The reason for the "delay" is the government rebate program for converter boxes ran out of money and congress is trying to cover their *** with angry constituents who missed out.

Not sure if this is a genuine question, or a polemic.

The digital "changeover" is not a deadline, since there two aspects to this.

The first is obviously the installation and operation of a digital transmitter. When this has taken place, you will be able to buy and install a digital decoder to receive the signals. There is NO deadline. When the transmitter is sending digital signals, you can choose when you buy the decoder and receive the signals.

Has a date been set for this transmitter coming on line? It can be that such a date is not achieved, for technical or practical reasons, and in that case, you will have to wait before you need to buy the decoder.

The next stage will not occur until after the digital transmitter has been in operation for a period, and that stage DOES NOT offer you any advantage. It is, quite simply, the closing down of the analogue transmitter, and when that happens, ONLY digital pictures will be available in the area. I don't see how this "deadline?" is of any advantage to any viewer, as it means that anyone who does not have a digital decoder will lose their terrestrial TV. Surely, that cannot cause you any concern?

Passed the deadline? This sounds like a story written by a journalist trying to sell newspapers. Each area of the country has a different date for the installation of digital TV, and consequently, the closing of the analogue transmitters.

first of all, do you be conscious of the particular reason they % to alter? There are 2 contraptions of frequencies, one for analog and one for digital which doubles for HD. The analog is a lot larger particularly because of fact it truly is in accordance with technologies trouble-free set around the 1940's. whether it truly is definitely inefficient, the rationalization is that the government needs to take those frequencies and sell them to frequently the cellular telephone industry to extra strengthen their assurance. the terror is that human beings who waited can not handle to pay for the the rest $20 or so for the converter with the present economic device.

I think they voted against it anyway. But the reason they wanted to delay it is because the government ran out of the coupons, so a lot of people don't have the converter boxes yet.

I agree, some people just refuse to grow with the times. I call those people "technologically retarded". But I have heard arguments from the "other" side -- like "I'm too poor to afford cable or a new teevee", which I can sympathize with. You watch -- in June, it'll be the same sob stories.