I was, happily, out of the country for the 12th debacle ...in Belgium, they are progressively doing the DTV thing but analog is still there and, for that matter, most get TV via cable ...oh, yeah, you can get it via regular cable or telephone lines with high speed internet via both with or without fone. Oh yeah, by the way, the cellular coverage is virtually 100% all GSM with 3g in town and regular gprs everywhere else. Pay & Go cards are popular and very expensive ...plans are not cheap either. TV on cell phones is up and running. Weekend cell calls to landlines are free. Cell to cell within service is free. Outbound caller pays, inbound cellular is free (even expired pay&go card can receive calls free for a year since last load).
-----Original Message----- From: mike [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 11:26 PM Subject: Re: DTV debacle It's just TV...you aren't missing much. On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:10 PM, betty <[email protected]> wrote: > > It *was* broke, now it's fixed. For a while, anyway. You wouldn't > > really consider driving a 1940 model car today, would you? Your 'fire' > > analogy is a really bad one because DTV is a set of standards, not a > > universal chemical process. > > > Nobody around here can get all the channels they had with analog. None of > my friends have more than one or two channels even friends who live much > closer to the broadcast towers. In case you haven't noticed, fire still > works. Our TVs don't. Even friends with digital TVs--we have two--get few > channels even with new antennae. I'm so excite!! I got ONE secondary digital > channel today!! And NOTHING else. > > Sure looks like the people who did the survey found an area with good > reception and asked those folks. The hell with the rest of us who have > almost nothing now. Of course the National Association of Broadcasters would > say good things about DTV. DUH. > > 'Fire' adheres to the 'standards' set forth in the laws of Thermodynamics. > DTV standards aren't sufficient to provide over-the-air broadcasting, except > where the NAB does their limited polling. Your idea of broken is bizarre, > considering the replacement is much worse, and the excess bandwidth is being > sold instead of leased, denying taxpayers revenue that our gummint needs, > and has received before the sales. Bad standards, bad implementation. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
