Today is the day that television stations nationwide will finally begin ending their analog broadcasts for good. Read the full post.
Jun 12
2009
02:11 PM ET
Digital TV switchover is today: Don't forget to call your grandma
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Mmmmm…I remember Dad bringing home our first big old console color TV. I’ll never forget seeing that Jeannie’s smoke was pink! (You know, I Dream of Jeannie?) Wow! How awesome was that?
Mevo Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:53 AM EST
“Sorry, Casey, take a look at this:
Fact: Only grandmas rely on rabbit ears.”
Sorry Mevo you dumb@ss take a look at this:
Fact: I’m 27 and I use rabbit ears instead of cable. There are many people that either refuse to pay for cable or don’t care to. You’re a moron if you really believe your “fact.”
I have a roof mounted amplified “Rabbit ears” You know the really large ugly ones that look like something NASA made in in 1972. This thing could tune in an obscure channel from another state sometimes in analog.The picture is clear and sharp in digital with perfect weather!, but some wind or rain and now, can barely tune a station just miles away. Considering i live in one of the more dangerous storm areas of the country, would be nice to still get the warnings.. I mean cmon better technology should lead to better TV better warning systems ect ect not worse..
Casey, I think Mevo’s comment was meant to be sarcastic.
I remember only 13 (!) channels, all on a dial, so that you had to get up off your rear and change the channels by hand. The dial made a really satisfying >THOCK< sound as you turned it. Watching UNC basketball with my Dad late at night, the players fuzzing in and out of focus. Sesame Street. Awesome times.
I lived with cable up until I moved out of my parents house, then during college my roommates & I were broke and couldn’t afford cable. So we had to rock the ears. I just remember watching Maury w/ my friend Anthony during the day cuz there was nothing else on. During the evening I got my Conan fix (back during that brief period when he reffered to himself as the ‘Late Night Cat’).
Back in the day, we had the three network affiliates, a PBS station, and three UHF stations…and it seems that we had more to watch back then than we do now.
Unix Pimp, it’s not that we’re slackers. It’s that we’re poor. You try graduating with $50k in debt and looking for a job in this economy. I’ve been trying to get a job in my field for three years and am scraping by in a warehouse in the meantime.
How do you people NOT have cable, or at least a dish? Seriously!
Rob Tyson wrote: “How do you people NOT have cable, or at least a dish? Seriously!”
Those things cost money, and if you’re on a fixed income, like most elderly folks, you have to watch every single penny. It’s especially pertinent in this currrent economy. Life without cable would totally suck for *me*, but I can certainly understand why some folks held out.
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I bet folks are having a grand old time in Outback America with the DTV reception. Even here near Chicago we get reception trouble that looks blocky or cuts off when it rains or an object flys over. Oh yes we have the new equp. But getting up at night on your roof to turn the antenna is getting to be much. The system was not though out very well. I mean I have seen digital artifacts that look artistic at best that should not happen in Analog. I can take fuzz but this is like a VIC 20 in 1982. A joke of a system.
Interesting to see how the older generation will react. I guess you can throw out the old Antenna Cables.
Digital does have its benefits, but it’s you know the telecoms are making a killing its cheaper to distribute but I’m sure they are going to use it an excuse to hike subscription prices.
The days of Antenna Cables are done and gone. But you know the telecom giants are going to use this transition as an excuse to raise prices. Even if its cheaper on the back-end.
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