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"Although a Las Vegas station just wrapped a simple analog shutoff drill, the FCC is planning to use Wilmington, North Carolina as the official test bed for the 2009 digital TV transition. Starting on September 8th, all four of the major networks in the greater Wilmington area (around 400,000 residents) will turn off their analog signals and broadcast digital only. As expected, a flurry of advertising will go down beforehand to get residents prepared, but given that they'll be out on the beaches all summer, who knows how many folks will actually pay attention. Interestingly, this trial is just as much about testing to see how many folks get prepared as it is about the technological changes, but broadcasters may still use the trial to move their antennas based on the need for coverage. So yeah, if the world implodes on September 8th, you'll know something went awry on the coast of NC."

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/08/wilmington-nc-to-become-first-test-market-for-2009-analog-shuto/

Wilmington ... weird

5/8/2008 8:30:22 PM

Umm... I have analog shut off at my house. I just hide the analog channels on my HDTV channel list. So, I don't ever see them... EVER... NEVER EVER AGAIN... GOOD RIDDENS!

All I have showing are the digital channels.

[Edited on May 8, 2008 at 11:29 PM. Reason : bye!]

5/8/2008 11:26:51 PM

I find it amusing that you can buy a standard old school tube TV with the ATSC tuner built into it...

not to mention you can get the little converter box for free...

Then you have to take into account the fact that only 10% (random unbased statistic) of people actually ONLY have OTA TV and 90% of those people have already ordered the free conversion box... I'd say the world won't collapse...

Much unlike the picture we painted at best buy while selling big screen projection TV's in 2001...

5/9/2008 1:39:14 AM

so attempt #2 for the analog shutoff is june 12. nobody's talking about it. at least not as much as the media, et al were in the months leading up to this past february. does that mean everybody is prepared?

6/7/2009 9:30:30 PM

Last I heard, the unprepared number was getting pretty close to 3%. If the switch had been thrown in Feb, estimates put the number at closer to 6%. So I guess that's something. But there's still going to be massive troubles and people bitching.

6/7/2009 9:42:17 PM

i thgouth this thread was about

6/7/2009 11:33:10 PM

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"GOOD RIDDENS"

6/8/2009 12:18:24 AM

bring back analog!!!!!!!!!!!


we are making a quantity for quality trade off. nobody seems to care .

6/8/2009 8:07:45 AM

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"so attempt #2 for the analog shutoff is june 12. nobody's talking about it. at least not as much as the media, et al were in the months leading up to this past february. does that mean everybody is prepared?"

every fuckin show has that crawl about it and it messes up the screen and sound

makes me all

i was pissed when they delayed it the first time

6/8/2009 10:13:48 AM

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"we are making a quantity for quality trade off. nobody seems to care"

wtf are you talking about?

6/8/2009 10:16:15 AM

my analog signals look and sound much warmer

[Edited on June 8, 2009 at 10:31 AM. Reason : aaaa]

6/8/2009 10:31:17 AM