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Updated: 7:14 AM Jan 6, 2009
DTV Transition Troubles
You've heard the commercial, you've heard the warnings: Get a converter box or you won't be able to watch free analog. The upcoming federally mandated TV conversion from analog to digital may cause some residents to not be able to see TV at all.
Posted: 6:04 PM Jan 5, 2009Reporter: Auburn Hutton Email Address: auburn.hutton@kolotv.com |
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Hey Charlie, did you even read the article? No one is asking for a handout in this story; I bought a converter box (without the $40 discount, I might add) and a new DTV antennae, but I live in the rural area of Dayton. I ran the channel search to no avail; I can not get even a single digital channel as of now. Because the county decided that "most people have cable", and supposedly did not have the money, now I will not have any channels after the DTV conversion. Sure we have been warned for some time now, but the county should have let us know that they do not have a solution, and not wait until someone had to inquire about it. I guess I am one of "the small handful" that does not have cable, and consequently will not have tv channels in the future. I hope that the fact the stations will lose consumers watching their commercials if they can not get the signals in rural areas is a reasonable sacrifice they are willing to pay.
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You people! They have been warning you all of this for quite some time. They were giving away converter boxes and now that it is crunch time, you are crying. Wake up people, the government is not a welfare division just to give things to the public. WE ARE THE ONES THAT GIVE THE GOVERNMENT THEIR MONEY! So any way you look at it, if you pay taxes you are paying for it anyway.
TV Fool (tvfool.com) has HDTV signal coverage maps. Enter the call letters of the TV station, select "digital", then see what is covered. Most of Lyon County isn't. Fallon should be ok though.
I'm wondering why the dont put a D/A tv converter at the input to the old repeater equipment and still run it
Auburn Good story, very informative and well written
The story says FTA dish/receivers are a lowcost option? They are an average of $300, and the average person will not be able to set them up causing more money to be spent, and if you do some research, you would know the majority of these are imports and or are made in Korea. There are several lawsuits in place right now to ban these imports because of hackers. In my opinion, if the feds forced this switch, then the homeowner should not have to pay ANYTHING! Or the stations should make their signals available to those who "used" to receive them. The older viewers are the loyal ones, now they will be lost.