digitaltv
Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act-2/17/2009
Filed in archive HDTV by itsTripple on October 28, 2007
Alert! Your analog television will no longer work after February 17, 2009. The federal government passed the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act law in 2005 in Oder to free up the analog air waves for emergency system broadcasts as well as other usages. The only way you will be able to use your analog TVs after this date is to purchase an HDTV converter.


19124099.jpg



The new television broadcast standard will be high definition, better know as HDTV. To properly receive the new broadcast standard you will need two essential items. First you will need an HDTV ready television set. Preferably with a built-in HD TV tuner...





Your HDTV will need to be capable of displaying at least 720 pixels (Vertical) and 1280 pixels (horizontal). This is the standard for the basic HDTV experience. In order to receive the HDTV signal for free, you will also need a roof-top HDTV antenna (Just when you though we got rid of those darn things). The roof-top antenna is needed to receive the line-of-sight broadcast of the HDTV signal. Most cable and satellite service providers are converting customers over to cable boxes with built-in HDTV tuners but their HDTV channels are available at an additional cost.

Retailers like Best Buy are already in the process of phasing out inventory of analog televisions and HDTV manufacturers are busy developing smaller HDTV displays to fill their void.
Permalink: Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act-2/17/2009
Tags: Digital  Television  Transition  and  Public  Safety  Act 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/99209
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act-2/17/2009:

  • Currently 8.75/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 8.75 out of 4 vote(s) cast.
 
Subscribe
Share It
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!