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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action If you’ve been wondering whether you’ll be able to receive strong DTV signals on your old TV, the FCC has thoughtfully created a site to help you out.
I just don’t get it. For years and years, the free-to-air networks argued that it wasn’t free EPG information or decent programming that would drive people to digital TV, it was the ability to multi-channel. Yet here we are in February 2009, the networks have been legally able to launch a second digital channel since January 1, and Channel 9 announces that they won’t be joining the multi-channel party until July because they need to upgrade their digital equipment.
Even though the mandatory switchover date from analogue to digital will be June 12 soon, about 681 (or 40 percent of) television stations will stop broadcasting analogue by the end of next week.
GPS satellites are just fast moving clocks, spewing out time code as they hurtle through space. Digital TV towers also spew time code, and could be a land-based GPS system or GPS assistant, says Ars.
Not surprisingly, shifting the DTV transition date to June 12th could mean that converter boxes will run out.
If you want a lesson on how to confuse the hell out of customers about digital television, look no further than the lessons currently on offer from the upcoming Australian Freeview service. Not only are they promising 15 channels od digital programming when there currently isn’t 15 channels operating (and there’s no word on whether there will be), but as Ty Pendlebury over at CNet AU has discovered, the FreeView EPG won’t actually work with any current TVs or DVRs – to enjoy FreeView’s EPG, you’ll need to pony up a heap of fresh cash to get a product with the FreeView badge.
It’s official: The digital TV change over date is now June 12. [B&C]
Spanish-speaking viewers are finding the DTV transition to be particularly difficult because their favourite stations have either switched to digital or are too low power to be viewed outside of analog.
Every so often my TV will tell me that it’s discovered new DTV stations, but when I scan, it finds nothing. As a result, I get the shits and curse Panasonic for having a TV that’s smart enough to tell me when it detects changes to the digital signal, then ignore the announcement. But Gus over at Lifehacker has pointed out that sometimes you need to rescan for channels, like when SBS upgraded its digital transmitters last week. The benefit of this upgrade is that you can now get 720p on SBS HD, plus a seven day EPG. And let’s face it – any upgrade to HD is worth a quick scan now, isn’t it?
[SBS via Lifehacker]
House Republicans have defeated the bill to extend the DTV switch by a vote of 258-168 (less than two-thirds). In their view, a delay would confuse customers and financially burden television stations.
