Analogue Swan Song

According the US federal government all analogue signals are supposed to end broadcasting and if you do not have a digital converter you will no longer be able to receive TV signal. Well, I never got my coupon to get my converter and I'm way too cheap to get cable. My DVD/VCR combo acts as a converter for the TV in my living room but alas my poor TV in my bedroom is supposed to lose signal. I was expecting my TV to go absolutely blank on the 12th of June. It didn't and as I'm writing this on the afternoon of the 13th, I still have two channels left on my TV. The others have gone out but I have been able to watch Saturday morning cartoons. :D

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• analogue
• tv
• digital
• conversion
• cheetoprincess
• june
• 12th
• 2009

[TorchwoodUK]

no question the BBC is a great channel, but you know I really like the CBS network.

[cheetoprincess]

I wouldn't mind having to pay a lisense fee for TV, the BBC has so many wonderful programs and it would at least filter out a lot of the crap that gets put on.

[TorchwoodUK]

given the commercial nature of US TV that does not surprise me, im sure you are aware of the BBC, and even the other channels on analogue TV channels, are regulated in such a way that they have worked well together to make the UK switch over, well planned, and less hurried, even if it is taking ages.

[cheetoprincess]

No, it wasn't well organised. It was supposed to happen in February and they kept postponing it. I think one channel had a test a few weeks before the switch to see if you could view digital, but on the switchover day it was just "click, bye bye analogue".

Broadcasting in the US has always been crap with informing the public and organising.

[TorchwoodUK]

im not going to bore you with details of UK switch-over , but when the switch-over comes to my area, BBC 2 switches off first and then a few weeks after the other 4 channels do.

Some areas have already completed switch-over, and as far as I know all the channels switched off as they were expected to.

The US switch over seems alot more rushed than the UK one, and not nearly as well organised by the channels involved as the UK one is.

[cheetoprincess]

Yeah, I still have one channel left. All the rest switched over but one is still broadcasting in analogue. I love it! lol

[TorchwoodUK]

do you mean some of the analogue channels are still on air?

[cheetoprincess]

That's cool, I used to have cable which was going to be easier I'm just too lazy. And it interesting to see how many channels haven't followed the regulation, lol

[TorchwoodUK]

Analogue TV, the US really just switched it off over night, in the UK, we have years till the switch over, all my TVs have freeview boxes now ive been ready for a couple of years.

[cheetoprincess]

I might just take you up on that. I still have the two channels as of 5am the 14th of June.