[opendtv] Re: Accurian DTV STB from Radio Shack
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:08:04 -0400
> > And it's still only the 4th quarter of 2005.
> =20
> Hmmm. Let's see. There are 110 million U.S.
> TV households. There are about 30 million TVs
> sold a year (analog and digital combined).
> Congress might -- within the next two weeks --
> pass a law shutting down analog TV at the end
> of 2008.
Which is considerably longer than the Berlin
transition required. Granted, the scale is
different, but so is the transition time still
left.
The price is right NOW. The performance seems to
have reached an adequate level. Analog reception
seems to have been beaten, in most cases (even
if not with an antenna strictly sitting on top of
a particular TV set in NYC).
Below is the Berlin transition schedule, starting
with the first two DTT stations beginning to
braodcast digital:
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31 October 2002 Stage one of the switchover: Two
high-power frequencies are switched from analogue
to digital transmission.
28 February 2003 Analogue transmission of all
national commercial television services ends; the
high-power public-service frequencies (except for
channel 39) are switched to digital operation;
the public-services programmes are switched to
lower-power analogue channels.
4 August 2003 Analogue transmission of terrestrial
television in Berlin-Potsdam ends.
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That's 4 months for most channels, and 9 months
and 4 days for all channels, in Berlin's
transition.
On the other hand, we already have all channels
available in DTT, in I think all TV markets by now,
and we have 26 months left before analog shutdown.
Even if they decided to shut down analog on
1/1/2007 as originally hoped, that still gives us
14 months.
That's why I say, "only the 4th quarter of 2005."
Bert
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