Comments on: Digital TV switch set for early 2009

Senate votes to end over-the-air analog TV in move to free up radio spectrum for broadband links.

[baristaman]

TV Cards in Lieu of Leasing Converter

If the above is true about cable viewers needing nothing extra, why are cable providers planning to charge current analog cable customers for their digital tuners? I've heard that part of the new law requires cable co's to offer a mod to your TV (circuit card) that avoids renting the tuner. Anyone heard of this?

[miamikitten]

Hurricane Season

I live in South Florida and during hurricanes I rely on my 5" battery operated TV with an antenna to stay informed about the weather conditions during the storm and about the aftermath. What will happen to us now? Will the government allow analog signals to be used during natural disasters? If anyone has any info on this I would like to know.

[cable168]

Hype of Hypes

People if you actually believe your cable company who actually ownes the rights to the broadcast freqs would leave you in black. Hmm, yet another good try and misleading information from the ever eager FCC to attain back the RF freqs from the cable industry. The only real fact in the 2009 hype is yes all networks have to be digital capable. Guess what though, what they fail to add in there is more than 90 percent of all broadcast are and have been for years. Your local cable company can change and have been converting the digital broadcast to analog for some time now. Thus to allow the elderly or low income households equal television viewing choices. Do not if you can not afford a new television set over this rediculas fight between the FCC and cable industry. The cable company has the means and the tools to make your old TV work perfectly with any future updates. Sit back and see your old TV work fine after Feb 2009 same as it did before.

[thabassman]

digital TV FTW

[oldmanriverdownby]

Because of your advertising I requested your rebate cards.
Received them and purchased a converter for $49.95.
Good deal a new converter for $10 is great.
I purchased it early in hopes some of the channels were already
broadcasting in digital. Much to my surprise all the channels I receive
by analog were already broadcasting digital. PLUS I was getting 4 sometime
5 Channels in analog NOW I get 10 or 11 with 2 or 3 programs on each.

Here is what you are not telling the public all of which would have made me
switch sooner

1 Stations are already broadcasting in Digital
2 More than one program for each channel
3 Possibly reception of more channels than analog on the same antenna

Note: I only plugged the box into my TV (Did not touch my antenna)
I live in a rural area closest Station 60 miles most distant possibly 95 miles.

You want people to switch to digital Tell them $10 one time and many more channels.
and by the way you are already missing it.

Keith Martin

[studytheilluminati]

people must realize how big this is, its like re introducing the idea of tv to humans, only yu all need to do yur research, its a ploy to destroy our minds with ELF frequencies, extremely low frequencies that damage yur ability to think and will melt yur brain day by day, its a big step towards the NEW WORLD ORDER of the 33rd degree higher freemasons, jesuit luciferians, and the illuminati bloodlines that direct our sheep society behind the "pretty" society theyve set up. THIS IS DEATH TO OUR SPECIES. THEY ARE FORCING YU TO GET IT, THINK! WHY? WHO BENEFITS? BUSINESSES RUN BY SATANISTS, IBM WERE RESPOSIBLE FOR THE HUMAN TAGGING OF MEN AND WOMAN DURING THE HOLOCAUST DO YUR ******* HOMEWORK AND STOP STARING BLINDLY INTO THE PRETTY LIGHTS OF DECEPTION.WE GOTTA THROW AWAY OUR TELEVISON NOT UPGRADE ITS POWER OVER OUR EXISTENCE, ITS THEYRE ULTIMATE BRAINWASHING THOUGHT CONTROLLER OF OUR RACE!! THE WORLD LEADERS ARE ALL RELATED LITERALLY AND OTHERWISE, AND ARE APART OF THE ASHKENAZI JEW BLOODLINE OF A RACE OF EVIL BEINGS KNOWN AS SATAN, THEY ARE ROYALTY THAT CONTROL THE MASSES TO AN EN ROUTE SLAUGHTER OVER HUGE AMOUNTS OF TIME SO WE DONT REALIZE IT.