Re: The end of NTSC analog TV

2007-04-28 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
but there is still a ton of money to be made selling and reselling that spectrum. You can bet the networks aren't doing this just out of a desire to improve the American TV viewer's experience. ;-) Not only that, but think of all the money they will save in electricity costs. The same

Re: The end of NTSC analog TV

2007-04-27 Thread Shawn K. O'Shea
On 3/25/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, they'll eventually stop broadcasting NTSC format video at all, and then I'll be screwed. Eventually? Try February 2009 ... ... nothing about this law actually requires that the cable

Re: The end of NTSC analog TV

2007-04-27 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/27/07, Shawn K. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the FCC believes that the government can make as much as $15 billion dollars on the auction. You can bet that's RF spectrum is the story behind the story of DTV. One popular conspiracy theory was that all the OTA broadcasters would

The end of NTSC analog TV (was: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center)

2007-03-25 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/25/07, Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, they'll eventually stop broadcasting NTSC format video at all, and then I'll be screwed. Eventually? Try February 2009 ... ... nothing about this law actually requires that the cable companies stop offering an analog tier on their