Comments on: Digital TV in US by 2009

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:46:35 +0000

Hollydud held it up waiting for ok on the broadcast flag. No flag, no major amount of releases in HDTV.

I’d rather have standard definition analog T.V. than anything with a broadcast flag. An old VHS tape outperforms anything digital that says, “you aren’t allowed to watch this anymore”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:38:21 +0000

Again? Same play, different date. They’ve already did one of these dates. Hollydud held it up waiting for ok on the broadcast flag. No flag, no major amount of releases in HDTV. That’s way their doing it yet again in setting a time limit to recoup the old tv channel bandwidth.

If limiting what your listeners can do with the product is any indication of success, then the broadcast industry could learn a thing or two from the music industry. Didn’t we have a fluff piece here with moaning and groaning about how music wasn’t selling? So lets see what mom and pop have to say about it when they find out.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:02:05 +0000

The government can issue all the converter boxes they want but if the stations can’t get permission to place the transmitters (like in our area where they can only put them up on one spot, which has been shot down in court) you ain’t going to get nothing.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:15:35 +0000

I live out in the boondocks way up north in Idaho 100 miles from the nearest major city. I’d bet a month’s pay that there will be no watchable digital broadcast where I live by 2009. Cripes we can barely pick up any “normal” TV broadcasts now. Digital transmission is not like analog. When an analog reciever gets a weak signal the picture gets bad but is still there. When digital drops below a threshold it just stops displaying anything. This ought to be interesting…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:58:28 +0000

errm same here in the uk