[LM_NET] TECH: Digital TV

[David Lininger <tss003@TNP.MORE.NET>]

Colleagues:

Last week I got an email asking whether I knew any more about the 
impending advent of digital TV. I didn't know any more, and since I'm a 
bit of a pessimist, I'm not going to do much about it until it actually 
arrives. We do next to nothing with broadcast tv here - everything is 
dvd or VHS, and the sets themselves are Channel One sets.

I put out the questions to one of my amateur radio lists, and got 
several good replies. The best one, though, is just two links: one to 
the FCC FAQ site, and the second to a news article about the digital to 
analog converters.

Digital TV FAQ from the FCC
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html

Article about LG and DTV converters for $60
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1931969820070320

I hope these two will help those of you who are buying new stuff to make 
wise decisions.

In answer to my question about whether this change will improve the 
quality of the programming, I was told that it would not, but that the 
garbage would just look better. Looks like our home tv antenna will soon 
become a ham radio antenna.


-- 
David Lininger, kb0zke,
MS/HS librarian
Hickory County R-1 Schools
Urbana, MO 65767
417-993-4226
tss003 at tnp dot more dot net

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