DTV News: Rural areas gear for digital TV
Source: Capital Press
Low-power stations, Class A television stations and translator stations that rebroadcast the signal from full-power stations in many rural areas will not be affected at first when the digital switchover occurs according to the article, but eventually will be upgraded after the February 17th, 2009 date.
There’s also a little blurb from the article that mentions The Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging people who own an analog TV to extend the life of their TV by purchasing a digital converter box.
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March 21, 2008 | Filed Under DTV | HD News
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I don’t believe your headline to be true. In fact, I already know people who have lost television signals entirely.
There will absolutely be instances when no amount of money will be able to solve the DTV signal problems. No matter how high an antenna is placed, these signals just may not come. Then, the absolute only option willl be to sign up to satellite service – if it is available. Let’s face it; even in todays technologically advance world, there are still hundreds-of-millions of people who live outside cities, towns, villages, many of whom cannot connect to cable, because it is not economically feasible for cable operators to expand there.
We run the risk of disenfranchising millions of people simply by turning from analog to digital.
Well, I say no! This is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. We absolutely cannot allow the government to force this on us, when very few people wanted this change at all. The analog system is far more reliable and reaches 98% of all the people in the US. We worked for decades to get television coverage to the people, and now we are almost starting again from scratch. I hope (when the transition finally takes place), that the millions of people that lose service will remember to call the FCC, congress, representatives, broadcasters, and anyone else they can think of and tell them they feel this is unacceptable. The truth must be told!
Do you think I’m exaggerating? Do a Google news search for Digital TV Maine or Digital TV Arizona. You’ll find plenty of articles that will tell you that several thousand have just lost all television. But the media and the government doesn’t want to make it sound so bad. So you won’t hear about this so much until after the switch is made, when it’s too late.