Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act-2/17/2009
Filed in archive HDTV 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.
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.
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Response from:
John
(10/31/07 8:25am)
What if people refuse to replace or buy the converter? It's likely the goverment will be forced to redeem those who don't want to spend more money on their tv sets.
Response from:
N.G.
(11/06/07 9:18pm)
Unfortunately, your interpretation of the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act is just plain wrong. Analog TVs will work just fine. The only thing going away will be over the air analog broadcasts (generally the networks, PBS, etc.). Regular analog cable or digital cable through a cable box are not affected in the least. Since very few people have only over-the-air broadcasting, there won't be much of an effect.
Now cable companies may eventually see this as the impetus for moving to HD only cable broadcasts, but if their track record is indicative of anything, they'll try to squeeze every last penny out of the infrastructure they already have and analog cable will be around for quite a while.
Now cable companies may eventually see this as the impetus for moving to HD only cable broadcasts, but if their track record is indicative of anything, they'll try to squeeze every last penny out of the infrastructure they already have and analog cable will be around for quite a while.
Response from:
Francisco
(02/04/08 2:05pm)
Consumer Reports and HearUsNow.org have a great information site on DTV.
http://www.hearusnow.org/tvradio/12/
And they set up a way to share your experience with the transition to digital television.
http://cu.convio.net/HUN_shareyourDTVstorypage
For more information, visit:
www.consumerreports.org/cro/electronics-computers/news-electronics-computers/pulling-the-plug-on-analog-tv-206/index.htm
http://www.hearusnow.org/tvradio/12/
And they set up a way to share your experience with the transition to digital television.
http://cu.convio.net/HUN_shareyourDTVstorypage
For more information, visit:
www.consumerreports.org/cro/electronics-computers/news-electronics-computers/pulling-the-plug-on-analog-tv-206/index.htm
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