On 12/16/2013 01:00 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Re "On my walks I listen to streams on my smart phone rather than AM
or even FM radio.":
I'm illiterate as far as new technology goes. Is it that you can
access the internet on a smart phone without having to rely on a local
wi-fi connexion? So you use the phone company's regular signal? If so,
doesn't that cost per minute?
I have data on my T-Mobile account which costs $30 a month total. I
don't talk much via the phone so most use is the data which is up to 5
GB a month. I start out from my house using my wifi and a house or two
up it switches to using 4G data from T-Mobile. I also sometimes use a
small FM transmitter to broadcast the smartphone signal to the car radio.
Over here when they dropped the analogue signal for TV transmissions
and we all went digital it meant my hand-held mini-TV receiver went in
the garbage can and there was no equivalent portable digital TV to
replace it.
Analog was dropped in 2009 in the US. It was supposed to happen in 2006
but the Bush administration was slow to get the free converter program
in place so it needed to be delayed. There was a plan for hand-held
digital TVs with a lower resolution sub carrier but it seems to have
gone away since everyone watches on their phones anymore.
Re"I love all the big corporations losing their asses on their radio
and TV stations.":
Bring it on.
With me it's not so much the profits that alarm me, it's the monopoly
on the "narrative" we get fed by the MSM.
