Linked by weildish on Tue 6th Jan 2009 17:28 UTC
If you live in the United States, then it's almost certain you've heard about this big digital switch that public television is making due to a new US law. If you live outside of the US, I bet you've heard of it anyway since we like to let people know what we're up to. The big day that's coming up -- February 17th, 2009 -- that magical date when all television stations will historically abandon the infamous analog broadcasting for greener, digital pastures -- didn't strike fear into the hearts at my household. We rarely utilize the antenna, and then only two to four times a year for a special program. Nonetheless, we got our hands on one of those nifty coupons anyway and went out to purchase a digital converter for the sake of those few intrinsic public broadcats. Read on for the whole story.
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As I was still living in Orlando, I gave up on BrightHouse Networks cable t.v. and got an indoor antenna, shortly followed by a Panasonic DVD-R/VCR combo. The video was so much better.
That said, I've moved to the Eastern Indiana/Western Ohio area where it's 40 miles to any station and I got zero reception. My parents are Comcast subscribers and Comcast slyly moved a few channels into the digital box range and my parents now sport a problematic (pink distortion) digital box. Of course, if there is any problem it's with (the t.v., the station, anyone else) but not with Comcast. It's not their fault that they failed the weekly digital compliance tests.
I'm with DirecTV now.