WPLG Local 10 DTV Transition to Digital Final / Last Analog Broadcast

[PinkTeardropos]

Finley I had found a video for the analog broadcast end in my TV market witch had taken me over an hour to find.

[LAdyLynWooD310]

I HATE DTV!!! IT SUCKS!!!

[umahuma4]

NO TV FOR YOU!

[JSpearman4]

Well no Dr. Phil for you. lol

[SunnyDayBluez]

Why did they do that?

[cmtiger]

GO usa go!!!

[wiseye61]

Norway did the switch last year... XD

We better than YOU!!!!!!!!!

[wastedwhiteguy6978]

Since I'm paranoid.....I cancelled my cable and bought an old TV that isn't Digital ready because i don't want big brother spying on me........Maybe I'm overly paranoid but who cares because since then I hooked my computer up to my TV and can now watch any channel in existence as well as movie channels including the ones still in theaters cause us paranoid types can be clever.

[jaskey]

cable was already digital no? so if you were using cable nothing changed by this. second, it's a lot easier for the government to track your internet than TV. (and even completely deleted computer with the main chip in pieces could be used to find your computer history)

[wastedwhiteguy6978]

Not worried about them "tracking"

More concerned with them spying.

I'm a paranoid Survivalist type......

[bobby1144]

This technology was here in the 80s they could have and should have done in then.

[harleykman]

I'm not sure what you people are talking about?

DTV uses MPEG2 compression which was not invented until the mid-90s, with first DTV broadcast in 1999.

The only HDTV that existed in the 80s was a Japanese system which used analog signals, required 3 channels for each program broadcast (i.e. 18 megahertz wide), and had a problem with motion artifiacts that blurred the image. It was far infeior to what Digital HDTV provides today.

[Grandeur001]

How can they do that to the poor Martians without warning them first

[jaskey]

they had plenty of warnings, they just didn't watch enough TV.

[hector9462]

does digital transition make hdtv with better picture?

[lawnside82]

nope still the same

[hector9462]

really so what the fuck they make a big news about it

[dgenerate707]

no wwe smackdown looked delayed and slow after the transition

[Joe402]

So conflicting. Digital TV is probably better but the switch screws poor people.

[Joe402]

In these videos I like to pretend there is a coup and the military is shutting down all media.

[georgef551]

WBZ 4, Boston, went black at 12 noon that day, and since, has been looping the DTV conversion how-to video. I saw that ocurr live. Weird to see something so old that you grew up with, go.

[dgiors]

It is kind of sad to see analog end. Progress is bittersweet, however, necessary.

[stdrange]

holy shit this is the coolest

[denelson83]

By the way, those thick rolling bright white bars that suddenly appear in the static are actually the digital signal of that television station as the analog TV sees it.

[harleykman]

Not correct. (1) I don't see any of those white bars on my local channels because...

(2) Digital signals are designed to look like white noise on old sets, in order to avoid interference during the 1999-2009 transition. Those bars are probably an artifact of the Video recorder.

BTW:

Analog is not completely dead. In addition to low-power stations still broadcasting analog, it also exists in old game consoles (Atari, Commodore), in DVRs, and DVD S-video or composite outputs.

[noseyb]

And suddenly a guy in a Max Headroom mask appears! AAAGGH!

[chibicelchan]

If I could thumbs up this comment 100 times, I would.

CATCH THE WAVE!

[blackandblue10]

World's greatest newspaper nerds!!.. *starts humming clutch cargo theme*

[simpleau2]

I can't believe they flipped off analog tv...I mean, digital is great and very noise resistant but analog is so easy to tune to. I guess I'll go revise my digital filtering layouts now...

[gairabad]

Why the noise that started a while after the static?

[sssummer]

aw. so sad, yet so anti-climactic. i'd take a fuzzy picture ANY day over the on-and-off pixelated blotches i see now.

[bizargirl]

that was kind of depressing.

[RetroBoyWontDie]

Juan, you killed Miami television!!! :)

Yeah, was hoping for a "3...2...1...hisssssssss."

End of an era.

[zomgllamaattack]

hissss?? I wanted a "BOOMMMMMMMmmmmmm... shit wrong button"

[Mrtraveler01]

Yeah a countdown would've been nicer. Still I'm envious of Juan. That would be cool to shut down a analog transmitter.

[envymyshots]

man....just like that

[ElHubso]

If I didn't see Doctor Phil after the switch I would jump for joy.

[jesusabdullah]

Pressing the little button wasn't as cool as the shifting of a massive lever that I imagined in my head.

[vikingscool]

I thought it would been pulled the plug.