Comments on: How to Prepare for the Digital Television Switchover

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By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:51:27 +0000

Brian: Your comment isn’t quite correct. Only a limited percentage of projection TV sets (and generally only those 42 inches in diameter or larger) included digital tuners before 2004.

Anyway, great article here, if you don’t mind, I’m going to blog/linkback to it from my website.

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:38:14 +0000

We have a family cottage in New Hampshire and right now most of the stations are Boston stations (Ch 9 in Manchester is the only local station that we can receive.) and with the change to digital we will not be able to get any over the air stations at all. The nearest cable is twelve miles away and the FCC answer to this is satellite DTV. How many New Hampshire families will not be able to afford $50 an month for what they use to get free?

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:50:45 +0000

Tom, welcome back.

By: Tom K

Tom K — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:17:47 +0000

It’s been a long time since I’ve been here. It’s been quite a year for me so far, but when I wrote today’s post, I thought of your blog. Did you and your readers see the film of my post in school when you were kids?

By: LisaBinDaCity

LisaBinDaCity — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:23:47 +0000

I can’t tell you how happy I am I have digital tv’s!

By: Rhea

Rhea — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:44:14 +0000

Thanks, Brian, for the stat on who this will effect.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:24:23 +0000

Yet another reason not to sign up for cable.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:13:51 +0000

The vast majority of households in the U.S. will not need to do ANYTHING for the switchover because they are cable subscribers, and the cable companies will be converting all their signals on their end (or at the cable box).

The only people who need to take action are people who still have analog television sets (any television more than about 10 years old will be analog) AND get their television signals over the air via antenna. That group is less than 10% of the TV-owning population.

By: Suldog

Suldog — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:42:40 +0000

We’ll see how it pans out. I’ve found that most technological advances still have some major bugs in them by the time they hit the general public, and that some of them end up being discarded within months. I assume that won’t happen here, but…