Digital TV switch set for early 2009

[DnetMHZ]

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It's almost official: Starting Feb. 18, 2009, millions of televisions in American households will go black unless they're outfitted to receive all-digital broadcasts.

Not a problem if you have cable, just OTA

 

[LikeLinus]

It's changed so many damn times. It was 07...then they were arguing for 08. Then they wanted AFTER March Madness of 09. Now they are doing it in Feb of 09.

 

[erub]

question: We use DirecTV at my house, but we have an antenna so we can get the local channels in HD (I know that DirectTV just released new hardware so you can get these local channels in HD thru them, but we haven't gotten that yet)..assuming that we don't get new directv hardware before then (which I think is pretty unlikely, but yeah), is HD part of the 'digital' spectrum?

 

[Genx87]

HD and Digital are not the same things.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: erub
question: We use DirecTV at my house, but we have an antenna so we can get the local channels in HD (I know that DirectTV just released new hardware so you can get these local channels in HD thru them, but we haven't gotten that yet)..assuming that we don't get new directv hardware before then (which I think is pretty unlikely, but yeah), is HD part of the 'digital' spectrum?

I'm pretty sure all HD is broadcast over digital signals.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: Genx87
HD and Digital are not the same things.

That isn't what he asked.

 

[Murphy Durphy]

I thought almost all stations had to start broadcasting in HD this coming year?