Funeral for Analog TV - Paul Saffo

[marksnoise]

We bagetelliseren onze eigen intelligentie, en onderschatten alien intelligence door neerbuigend te spreken over onze cultuurgeladen signalen in outer space.

[Donkeymadlad]

The other thing that worth mentioning which really highlights another culture difference is that TV is free in America.  In the UK you have to pay around £150 for a TV license but then to get anything decent you really need cable (Virgin Media) or satellite (Sky TV) which would be another £60 - £70 a month. - Basically you have to pay an aim and a leg to watch TV in the UK, it's extremely expensive

[Donkeymadlad]

The TV really does show the differences in culture from America and the UK and maybe Europe. Because America is so big TV plays an important role because it connects people and it's good that TV is free. In America the anologue switch over seems to be a huge deal with channels and networks celebrating before the switchover. In the UK there was no such celebration the switchover just happen during normal programming. It wasn't considered a massive deal as it is in America.

[t0xictreasure]

commercial fucks up the videoplayer

[1337BananaL33TVostok]

i wish analog tv comes back.. moving my antenna around with buzzing noises and screen rolling up and down.. its a big part of the charm.. fuck my goverment anyways..

[UTAOUB]

Call me paranoid if you wish -- but I can't decide whether Digital TV has come in, and analogue gone out......because 1) So that the government can watch everything we're doing, (there's a little red light that's ALWAYS on on my TV), or 2) So the goverment can use all the old digital channels for secret messages? To my mind, people should have a CHOICE.....digital and/or analogue. I shudder to think when "Super-Digital" may come. Remember WillRogers: "Congress-people are OUR HIRED HELP!"

[flyby7a]

the other day, i counted 8 LOUSY COMMERCIALS IN BETWEEN THE SHOW.. EIGHTTTTTTTTTTTT COMMERCIALS.. TELEVISION SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[MSavage59]

Bring back analog TV they switched it to digital to rip people off

[companiontwo]

Why did we need to make analog (illegal)??? this is one of the scariest things I have ever heard of in the USA. But don't worry kids, all will be as it should. The mainstream claim (story told to the fat & happy public) was that they "all of a sudden" need the old style analog signals for "emergency or official" use- C'Mon!! are you kidding me? if this technology is so old and useless why on Earth are the top "?" agencies charged with the protection of the public using it?

[justinruebensaal]

i love digital tv beter than analog

[poeforward]

I love it!

[phdecora]

the 'i love lucy' thing is blowing my mind though... wow!

[phdecora]

(still interesting video.. btw the communism quote comes from some movie director, i think the guy who did goodbye lenin maybe)

[phdecora]

1. its like communism.. people think they miss it, but what they realy miss is their youth.

2. 'digital tv is run by the suits'? uhhh yeah, the internet is controlled by those wonderful cool guys who .. uhh.. set up hyper polluting sweatshops in china to drive the price down. .. real 'hipsters' at Intel, Cisco, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, Best Buy... top tier ISPs, copper mines, uhmm yeah.

[KARBOWICZ]

WE NEED ANALOG BACK!

[dropyadrawers]

Damn it, I want my analog television back. UHF-TV is the wave of the future!

[zerohype]

Dude! Digital TV is great if you have the right antenna for indoor use. If you are using a coat hanger for an antenna then yes, it is bad. Try an MECS flat panel antenna for $29.95. You not only will get great pictures after June, you will get several sub channels from each station. Just take a look at my video. Of course each antenna has a hidden mind control device in it. Watch my video and join us.

[thpt]

Not really cohesive. Interesting points are touched on, but never expounded on, concluded, or drawn together.

[puressentiel]

This is a very light video.

But the fact revealed about in the middle of the video is extremely grave: Big brother will watch us, and we (i.e. the little guy, the commons) will not be allowed to watch back, because digital communications will be encrypted.

A bunch of very bright people seem so de-connected with the seriousness of where we are headed: totaliarism. Not a pretty thought. We must react!

[Sardonac]

What evidence do you have for the onset of totalitarianism?

[Floodian]

Just turn off the damn TV

[Memstat]

That is where the geeks of our community come in and find some sort of hack, if it can be encrypted it can be decrypted. But yes I agree we are slipping towards totalitarianism, hell it's all ready a fascist socialist country now. But at the same time what happened to people will to stand up. It's written, when the government fears the people there is democracy, when the people fear the government that is tyranny.

[phdecora]

when are you guys going to go back and read some real history books and discover that socialism and fascism are two distinct ideologies with very different institutions, tactics, effects and results? that's why they are called by different names. i would start by studying two things: 1. Ernst Roehm, and why hitler killed him, and 2. Hitler's relationship with Capital (i mean, you might as well call fascism 'capitalism', the links are so tenuous in both cases)

[mdelcamp1]

I live in the U.S. State of New Hampshire, and to save $300,000, this State's Public Television Station ceased to broadcast their analog television signals a month ago. Now, although I have the "Digital Converter Box" and live in Manchester, this State's largest city, I cannot receive this area's public television station's digital transmission signals. Think they are getting any donations from me now, or in the future? Think again.

[i3ak3ri301]

Well, what the fuck are you doing with that ancient piece of shit?

[mdelcamp1]

We cannot all afford nice, new digital TVs, and we do not all drive shiny, new cars, either. Here in New Hampshire, the State and Local only pay $3,500 per student per year for educating young people for the future. Needless to say, this State has no future, no regional or serious Public Transit, no Public Television, analog or digital, and yet they pretend everything is just fine and dandy. "What the fuck" like you said. People who contribute to PBS should Think Again. The analog signal up No.

[mdelcamp1]

Being Free, unlike you digitized lunkheads. I can buy a $125 Slingbox and get my TV off the high speed web. I worked for Circuit City Firedog as a Dispatcher for PC and TV Techs, all those Americans buying their cable and satellite TVs and subsuming their TV Viewing to the big Media Corporations, the Government, and the Advertisers. Neither Verizon nor Comcast are friends of the individual TV Viewer or Internet End User. Nor is Microsoft, nor the U.S. Government, in my own view. Freedom. A++.