It's just TV...you aren't missing much. On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:10 PM, betty <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > It *was* broke, now it's fixed. For a while, anyway. You wouldn't > > really consider driving a 1940 model car today, would you? Your 'fire' > > analogy is a really bad one because DTV is a set of standards, not a > > universal chemical process. > > > Nobody around here can get all the channels they had with analog. None of > my friends have more than one or two channels even friends who live much > closer to the broadcast towers. In case you haven't noticed, fire still > works. Our TVs don't. Even friends with digital TVs--we have two--get few > channels even with new antennae. I'm so excite!! I got ONE secondary digital > channel today!! And NOTHING else. > > Sure looks like the people who did the survey found an area with good > reception and asked those folks. The hell with the rest of us who have > almost nothing now. Of course the National Association of Broadcasters would > say good things about DTV. DUH. > > 'Fire' adheres to the 'standards' set forth in the laws of Thermodynamics. > DTV standards aren't sufficient to provide over-the-air broadcasting, except > where the NAB does their limited polling. Your idea of broken is bizarre, > considering the replacement is much worse, and the excess bandwidth is being > sold instead of leased, denying taxpayers revenue that our gummint needs, > and has received before the sales. Bad standards, bad implementation. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
