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Title: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: sluggish on January 17, 2009, 09:17:52 AM: Just wondering...
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: WilldCrd on January 17, 2009, 09:21:33 AM: BAG congress is gonna push it back to june 17th (i think thats the date)
people arent ready. and its gonna screw-up the companies that bought those airways spectrum's. I forsee several big lawsuites in the near future
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: eagl on January 17, 2009, 10:53:10 AM: I upgraded my TV last year so I'll be able to watch tv no matter what the format is. The only problem is that I've been unable to sell or even give away 2 older TVs. Don't want to dump them in the trash due to enviro waste considerations, but I doubt even the salvation army will take them now.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: Blooz on January 17, 2009, 10:59:15 AM: Been ready since 1981.

Haven't watched analog TV since we got cable.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: trax1 on January 17, 2009, 11:55:55 AM: Quote from: Blooz on January 17, 2009, 10:59:15 AM
Been ready since 1981.

Haven't watched analog TV since we got cable.
Same here, infact I don't know anyone who does watch analog T.V anymore.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: trax1 on January 17, 2009, 11:57:35 AM: Quote from: eagl on January 17, 2009, 10:53:10 AM
I upgraded my TV last year so I'll be able to watch tv no matter what the format is. The only problem is that I've been unable to sell or even give away 2 older TVs. Don't want to dump them in the trash due to enviro waste considerations, but I doubt even the salvation army will take them now.

How old are your TV's that there not even cable ready? I'm just guessing that's what your implying because anyone with cable would be able to use the TV's.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: Chalenge on January 17, 2009, 01:38:13 PM: You get much better HD quality from an antenna you know.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: eagl on January 17, 2009, 02:48:50 PM: Quote from: trax1 on January 17, 2009, 11:57:35 AM
How old are your TV's that there not even cable ready? I'm just guessing that's what your implying because anyone with cable would be able to use the TV's.

They're cable ready, but people don't seem to want to be forced to use them with a cable box or a converter box.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: sluggish on January 17, 2009, 03:22:30 PM: You do not need a cable box or a converter box for basic cable with a cable ready TV.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: Masherbrum on January 17, 2009, 03:26:59 PM: DirecTV for the last 9 years here. I'm fine and my bill is the same as it was in 1999.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: eagl on January 17, 2009, 04:13:28 PM: Quote from: sluggish on January 17, 2009, 03:22:30 PM
You do not need a cable box or a converter box for basic cable with a cable ready TV.

Ok then, YOU buy my damn TVs. Nobody else wants them and the reason every single time someone asks about them is the digital changeover.
Title: Re: Are you ready for the digital transition?
Post by: sluggish on January 17, 2009, 04:20:53 PM: An analog TV would be fine also for a game console or to just watch movies on. I've got four already; I don't need any more.