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Poll: How many people will think it's the end of world on Feb 18?

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I figure plenty will still not know about the transition and think a nuclear war has wiped out the TV stations.
 
With all the constant ads on the local channels I don't see how anyone could not know about it. I think they run a ad at least once every time they have a commercial break. Then you have the annoying scrolling banner two or three times a night (looks like a weather alert).

Still people will be confused.
 
I believe they've already started dropping the analog signals in some markets (after notifying the public) to see how prepared people are. I remember reading that they did it in Charlotte sometime last year.
 
Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: Anubis
whats so important about feb 18th?
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nothing, unless you are still using analog UHF TV over antenna
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I dropped cable like 2 years ago when they raised the rates 3 or 4 times. I'm surprised that I don't miss it very much.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
I believe they've already started dropping the analog signals in some markets (after notifying the public) to see how prepared people are. I remember reading that they did it in Charlotte sometime last year.
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At least one station here has run a couple tests.
 
yea..

i just did a lil experiment with antennaes

i live downtown stl, between a bunch of buildings.

I had my tv plugged in, but only connected to my dvd player. I've got a $2,000 couch that I bought, but found I wasnt really using it as often because I had seen most of my dvds and only used it for napping or playing wii. Not only that, whenever I would make myself dinner and actually try to sit down and have a normal meal, I didnt have anything to just pick up and watch.

after 6 months of not having tv and seeing a digital converter at walmart, I decided to pick up one and give it a shot.

I picked up a cheap $15 antennae too.

The available stations in the area are 2,4,5,9,11,30,46

I was only able to pick up 2,5,11 and 30. 30 was sketchy at best.

When my brother came over, he messed with it, and got 9 and 46 to come in for a few minutes but it went away and we were never able to get it back. It was a crystal clear night then too.

So I went and bought a $40 amplified (made for dtv and hdtv) antennae.

It actually did worse. I tried everything, messing with gaines, moving the antennae around. nothing.

So I buy a similar antennae, different brand. Same story.

So I buy a 5 foot long, made for outdoor antennae that I set outside my apartment on the windowsill.

The first time I actually put an antennae outside, it did a lil better, but no real gains seen over the cheapest antennae.

Yesterday I was rummaging through some computer parts and found an old rusty looking antennae. I hooked that up, and got the best reception from it of any of the antennaes I bought.

I found that funny.

Anywho, my research shows that the stations that dont come in are the farthest away (only by a few miles) but their lat/long is much different than the best received channels.

Also, most of the channels (except 5 i think) haven't even migrated their digital broadcasts over to their best transmitters, so I realized that it doesn't have anything to do with my antennae. An antennae can only pick up whats available, no matter how much it is amplified, if there isn't a signal to begin with. The weak, makeshift DTV transmitters that some of the channels are using just aren't powerful enough to get through the city buildings and I just have to wait until the transition when they start using their taller, more powerful antennaes for digital.
 
Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
yea..

i just did a lil experiment with antennaes

i live downtown stl, between a bunch of buildings.

I had my tv plugged in, but only connected to my dvd player. I've got a $2,000 couch that I bought, but found I wasnt really using it as often because I had seen most of my dvds and only used it for napping or playing wii. Not only that, whenever I would make myself dinner and actually try to sit down and have a normal meal, I didnt have anything to just pick up and watch.

after 6 months of not having tv and seeing a digital converter at walmart, I decided to pick up one and give it a shot.

I picked up a cheap $15 antennae too.

The available stations in the area are 2,4,5,9,11,30,46

I was only able to pick up 2,5,11 and 30. 30 was sketchy at best.

When my brother came over, he messed with it, and got 9 and 46 to come in for a few minutes but it went away and we were never able to get it back. It was a crystal clear night then too.

So I went and bought a $40 amplified (made for dtv and hdtv) antennae.

It actually did worse. I tried everything, messing with gaines, moving the antennae around. nothing.

So I buy a similar antennae, different brand. Same story.

So I buy a 5 foot long, made for outdoor antennae that I set outside my apartment on the windowsill.

The first time I actually put an antennae outside, it did a lil better, but no real gains seen over the cheapest antennae.

Yesterday I was rummaging through some computer parts and found an old rusty looking antennae. I hooked that up, and got the best reception from it of any of the antennaes I bought.

I found that funny.

Anywho, my research shows that the stations that dont come in are the farthest away (only by a few miles) but their lat/long is much different than the best received channels.

Also, most of the channels (except 5 i think) haven't even migrated their digital broadcasts over to their best transmitters, so I realized that it doesn't have anything to do with my antennae. An antennae can only pick up whats available, no matter how much it is amplified, if there isn't a signal to begin with. The weak, makeshift DTV transmitters that some of the channels are using just aren't powerful enough to get through the city buildings and I just have to wait until the transition when they start using their taller, more powerful antennaes for digital.
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Except that they arent, as part of the changeover to digital, the maximum output wattage of the new transmitters are being cut. Whatever you recieve now, is all that you will recieve then.

 
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