I just listened to The Business Brief on KCRW podcast. The host talks about his discovery of OTA (over the air) digital with his relatively new 42" tv. No converter box required. Funny podcast. Full text available at link below; sample snippet pasted belower.
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bb/bb090105digging_digital_tv == sample snipet=== So I went home and sure enough, ten minutes after hitting the “program digital channels” button on my TV remote, I was in the digital age, in all its eye-popping glory. The local news now looks like an ad for teeth whitening, sitcoms look more surreally fake and NFL games look more surreally real. All those months and I could have been seen the pores on Oprah's face! But seriously, you really so have to watch Jeopardy in 1080-i hi-def just to see how much work they've put into waxing the floor. It's super shiny. So now, with nothing more than those old bunny ears sitting on top of my fancy new TV, I bring in maybe 40 clear-as-a-bell channels, many of them in hi-def, with information about the shows displayed right there on the screen. And even without the hundreds of channels I would have if I paid for TV, I have managed to joined the ranks of /Americanus Slothis/ -– the common American couch potato, flipping channels maniacally until my thumb is sore and my brain is numb. ==== end snippet I guess the moral of the story is to remind anyone with a relatively new tv (say LCD or Plasma) to hook up an antenna and "program digital channels" to see what you get. Mark J. wrote: > Having run out of its original allotment, the NTIA is putting names on > a waiting list for the DTV conversion boxes, although it probably > won't get the funding to put the coupon program back in operation > until after the Feb. 17 switchover: > > http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6626340.html?nid=3343 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
