One very important point is that it was a law that forced the digital TV transition, the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Transition_and_Public_Safety_Act_of_2005. The FCC has no choice but to follow the dictates of the law. If you’re looking for someone to blame it’s the 2005 Congress and President Bush, who signed the law.

@AntennaMan

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the additional info. Your comment has been pinned!

@DoubleALabs

3 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm starting a debate here but I don't have an issue with SOME of the TV broadcast spectrum being reallocated to cellular providers. Digital transmission is much more efficient than analog, allowing for subchannels and stations to be packed more closely together on the dial. Where the government went wrong, in my opinion, was forcing low-VHF stations to go digital and authorizing pathetically low powers on both the low- and high-VHF bands. Also they declined Sinclair's petition in ~2000 to allow stations to optionally use OFDM instead 8VSB. OFDM works far better under severe multipath conditions which are common in urban environments (and that's why ATSC 3.0 now uses it). The 600 MHz auction was kinda whacky too... Stations are packed way to close together, both in frequencies and service contours. I know one of the options was for the FCC to keep RF channels up to 44, which would have been better.

@BigEightiesNewWave

3 жыл бұрын

Blame ? I applaud him.

@user-yg4kj2mf1p

3 жыл бұрын

@@DoubleALabs This, again. The first round of spectrum re-allocation was a good thing. For example, here in Europe, nobody complained when they released the spectrum above UHF58 (800Mhz band). But then they decided to go lower for 5G, which means they sold all channels above UHF48 (700Mhz band). Keep in mind there are no VHF channels here, which means that every SFN now has only 6-8 UHF channels. Which means broadcast TV is stuck at low-quality FullHD (~6Mbits) best case scenario so they can fit in a half-decent amount of channels. Which means broadcast TV ends up being a plebian medium when even cellular networks will have soon have 4K. They say they are going to "fix" this with DVB-T2 and HEVC. Which means we have to buy new receivers. That 5G better be good and fulfill on its promise of making cellular more affordable.

@pattyeverett2826

3 жыл бұрын

In the Senate, this law passed 50/50 with Dick Cheney being the deciding vote. It was definitely not that popular. I, for one think that for safety's sake the law should be modified to allow the lower VHF band to be re-opened for analog TV, especially for weather information. As mentioned in another comment, analog TV is much more usable in bad weather than digital TV. In addition, this "sale" of spectrum should be changed to the "lease" of spectrum for the US tax payers sake.

The conversion from analog to cable was all about money and control. During analog times, we were told that advertisements were the price we had to pay to have free television. I currently pay nearly 200 bucks a month for cable TV, and I'm forced to endure more advertisements than ever before. We were lied to, and this really pisses me off.

@interstellaraxeman4468

3 жыл бұрын

100%,...they began to promote that belief during drive-in theater movies. "COMING SOON!!,..in the FUTURE!! ,...PAY TV!! Your TV will have NO commercials!!, this device, a "Home Box Office",...will show you commercial free TV!",....15 years later, cable TV comes along, and HBO with many other pay channels ABOVE the amount already paid, advertise themselves, as in THEIR channel, and there were more channels that were infomercials than the included analog lineup cable claimed they could improve. The dumbest thing besides the lie of "no commericials" are 12 or more, TWELVE OR MORE commercials PER HOUR for a cable company or channel you already have,...and are WATCHING that commercial on. Smart TV is only smart when it comes to things it does for those unseen,..it is pretty dumb when it comes to showing you stuff SO much that one may wind up doing what I did specifically because of that, I Cancelled it. Cancelled it like the TV was on fire, I even paid the ETF just to get that stupid little comcast tortise out of my face. I froze the cable box into a block of ice and returned it....I`m not pissed off, but they were.

@MR..181

3 жыл бұрын

@@interstellaraxeman4468 12 or more drug company commercials an hour paying for vaccine propaganda "news" for the public till..?

@olr3654

3 жыл бұрын

Digital is free

@willhaul5581

3 жыл бұрын

If you think that pisses you off wait until you find out about the CIA program that was initiated back in the day called project Mockingbird. I dare you to go down that rabbit hole. Conspiracy theory my ass. While you're at it look up where the term conspiracy theory came from.

@burtpanzer

3 жыл бұрын

@@willhaul5581 If the people only knew a fraction of the lies they accept every day, and how despicable their intentions are, they would never watch another minute of news... glad to see someone's been paying attention.

I think the FCC is hell bent on selling every last hertz to the cell phone industry. And not because it will benefit the public but corporate lobbies buying government officials. IMO, any TV channels using public airwaves should also be required to stream free over the internet.

@arnoldsmith982

3 жыл бұрын

i agree im in a weak signal area 60miles from local stations weather blocks reception a lot i have a large antenna but its only 35 ft high i would have no problem with reception if it was analog. i dont have cable, local stations should be free on the internet but they dont do that even though they lose customers for their ads

@Wok_Agenda

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@pilotavery

3 жыл бұрын

Cell phone bandwidth is running out and cell phones are congested as hell and more people are getting rid of TV and watching everything on their cell phone and home internet.

@BOBANDVEG

3 жыл бұрын

Bro.......the Olympics are about global unity.....I cant watch them without paying for a service with a local provider lol

@pilotavery

3 жыл бұрын

@@BOBANDVEG you can still watch it on digital over the airwaves, for free, or you can watch it online, for free, which is what most people use. You also can't watch it by telegraph either.

"Everyone owns the airwaves. That's why we're forcing you to shut down so we can sell those airwaves to cell phone companies."

@DonFanningThe

2 жыл бұрын

mommy keeps asking for more video streaming speed.. omg, the internet is sooo slow with the 5 4k videos playing simultaneously... #fml. I need to be like the Kardashians and be fiber lit 5G to my Apple iPhone MCXII yesterday!

@DonFanningThe

2 жыл бұрын

but all daddy knows is that his schtick won't suck itself... even if mommy was his foxhole buddy a decade ago.

@Cantfindahable

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to agree with you but “ we “ don’t own anything, in fact even we are owned by our government

@oneandy2

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cantfindahable the whole point of the FCC was for the government to assume ownership of something the people previously owned. Kinda like SS taxes. Why would I need or want the government to take something away from me in order for it to maybe give some of it back later?

@joltjolt5060

2 жыл бұрын

Truth. There's a us code they says travel cannot be restricted in american airspace.

We frequently lose tv signal now when there's bad weather near. That's the one time you'd want to tune in to the local channel to see if there's a tornado coming towards your neighborhood.

@ExtremeWreck

2 жыл бұрын

Well if there's a tornado coming towards your neighborhood, chances are you're doomed.

Do you remember the old black and white televisions? Do you remember how when you turned them off that the circle kept getting smaller in the middle of the television screen? Do you remember how the National Anthem played at the end of the night and then static would play? I remember.

@glorfindelchocolateflowery6392

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I thought that small circle was just me seeing stuff

@materockk1579

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I saw that too probably visting uk. Don't kill animals show mercy !

@emperorpawpateen.9992

3 жыл бұрын

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

@gabrielhermesson9926

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in the middle--i remember the old black and white TVs and the circle, but I'm too young to remember the National Anthem followed by static.

@starwish2467

3 жыл бұрын

I remember, too. I also remember my first, tiny color set. The first all color show I saw was MASH. I was shocked to see the red blood. In black and white, the color red showed as black. It made me a little sick to see the blood so crudely displayed all over the surgery scenes, like that. I had seen blood portrayed in movies, but never in my own living room.

Keeping the VHF Low spectrum for analogue TV in mountainous areas is a good idea but you have to remember that the FCC does not serve the public but works for the telecom companies and would rather sell spectrum to cell phone providers than serve the greater public good.

@jeromewysocki8809

3 жыл бұрын

Radiotec76, I agree with your comments. The old TV channels of 2-6 would better serve the public by being used as analog TV stations, in areas where analog is a better choice, as documented by a number of people who commented above. Whether that will be permanently done is anyone's guess.

@bootmii98

3 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER Evidently war profiteering is okay if you're Aryan, what with IG Farben etc

@UserName-ts3sp

3 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER uh that’s populism, not fascism. we do need to reduce the power of the corporate elite though.

@dalevaughn9446

3 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER Gentleman and possibly any ladie's who might be reading this post, PLEASE NOTE:::--( Fascism & corporatism are one and the same).P.S. Any people who are ruled over by a spirit of TOTALITARIANISM is Under Saten, regardless of what the're ideology's are. P.S.S. Where the SPIRIT of the LORD is their is liberty!!!. Turn to the LORD JESUS CHRIST before it's too late. John: 3 16 KJV.

As an adult, I'm a gamer instead of a TV watcher. The last time I watched the TV show was in 2018. And the show ended so I got nothing to watch left. The issue with analogue TV affecting me is that when I was a kid, it was a prevalent part of my life.

@ETXAlienRobot201

3 жыл бұрын

i only watch toonami [yep...DUBBED... anime] a few shows on history crime dramas or sitcoms during dinner yeh, basically nothing... if not playing games, there's a wonderful place to watch nearly anything called "the internet" and if i really felt like it, i could even download those, but i have no real reason to and half the things i download are never used for ANYTHING but honestly, next to nothing on tv is WORTH watching although, i can't say this doesn't upset me, especially since it's being done primarily to benefit a multi-billion dollar industry already rife with corruption and abuse. probably even shadier reasons, too...

@MB-vw3jc

29 күн бұрын

What show?

What I miss about analog is the fact at one time, if the atmosphere was right, I'd pick up weird channels from other places. I live in TX and used to sometimes get channels as far away as OK, LA and I think NM once. Can't do that with digital :P

@ExtremeWreck

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of unheard of channels were you able to find that you never got to see again after one time, & when trying to search them up leads to barely any results at all?

@bongascrobie

Жыл бұрын

I am inf fla, analogi sometimes got Texas, n c, nyc, Wisconsin, and p r, as well as El salvador

I still say analog was better, I’m still on a antenna, and whenever the weather changes, I start to loose channels , with analog, it could be storming, hail, didn’t matter, I never lost a signal

@iowa_lot_to_travel9471

3 жыл бұрын

Hilarious and correct. Analog is much better. But i cut the cord on cable many years ago. Dont even own a television

@gaylenewood7707

3 жыл бұрын

Back in the early 80s my parents would have us go outside by our porch to fix the antenna so channel 7 or 10 would be clear or if possible channel 3 but sadly channel 3 went out cause the tower in iowa went down back in 1983 so we only have 7 and 10..

@gaylenewood7707

3 жыл бұрын

@@iowa_lot_to_travel9471 Well I have a tv but I'm using dvd player to watch movies especially good old movies..

@iowa_lot_to_travel9471

3 жыл бұрын

@@gaylenewood7707 😆😆👋👋 I know they are still good for something

@timothylovelady6289

3 жыл бұрын

It isn’t just the weather. It is whether the network stations want to power up enough for reception in a given area. Some days I get multiple channels, other days I get zero or maybe two channels. Usually all liberal stations. Weather has nothing to do with it. I rescan and the antenna is pointed in the same direction.

Still mad about this 12 years later

@comments_from_me

3 жыл бұрын

I just gave away my 52” analog tv with split screen viewing, I wasn’t happy about having to let it go. I prefer analog over digital. At least, if the signal was weak, you could get a partial picture, now, you get all or nothing.

@mariolibertad9972

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@funnyfunnyvalentine7991

3 жыл бұрын

@@comments_from_me Exactly

@chevyguy6961

3 жыл бұрын

@@comments_from_me I had a 48 inch Magnavox that I had to use a converter box on to pick up digital signals. 9/11 proved that we needed to make more room for cell phone, and emergency service communication signals.

@J-1410

3 жыл бұрын

@@chevyguy6961 9/11 overloaded the Switches...

Haven’t been on cable for almost 3 years and love my life

@bravesoul5743

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaah same here!!

@trogdortheburninator3621

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't watched tv in all it's ways in 6 months. Seems pointless to do when you have a cell phone.

I remember when the Sept / 11 terrorist attacks on the USA happened ,our analog stations briefly started broadcasting 24/7 to keep viewers informed. This was unheard of as they usually went off the air around 2:00 am : )

@JT_8283

3 жыл бұрын

I remember fox in my home town would shut off and show the American flag other channels would show the different color bars or whatever and do that beeeeeeeeeeeep lol or they would just go to snow p.S. that snow you would see is actually from the big bang

@caveman3021

3 жыл бұрын

@@JT_8283 There was also the old test pattern with the Indian chief wearing a headdress in the middle. ; )

@361outlaw5

2 жыл бұрын

They would play lights by journey at 2am...and then they play the Star Spangled Banner...and then static

@williamh4172

2 жыл бұрын

You mean the Sept / 11 inside job?

@jacobgenekins4932

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the satanic mandate to stop analog was imposed in 2009...

AM radio has a HUGE reach. Some AM stations can reach across many states over hundreds of miles. And who needs (or wants) an upgrade in the first place? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

@jamessotherden5909

3 жыл бұрын

I remember as a teenager in the late 60's spinning the dial my old transistor radio at night picking up stations as far away as Texas. But mostly from mid west stations. Now with todays tuners you either get the station or not. And forget finding a distant station. had a lot of fun back in the day.

@stuarthirsch

3 жыл бұрын

Plus you can build a a crystal AM radio which requires no power to receive with low cost easily available parts. An AM transmitter with any transistor, op amp, or even old radio tube. Great option for a SHTF situation. Try that with digital!

@cantstandya112

3 жыл бұрын

In Buffalo NY there is WGR AM 550, they have five transmitter towers, one omnidirectional for day time and and four directional for night time. Reason being they would interfere with a station in South Dakota at night.

@MrHans818

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamessotherden5909 So did I along with many others. Baltimore to Texas is a long way.

@richb.4374

3 жыл бұрын

The internet changed everything. To build and maintain a commercial AM or FM station costs millions of dollars, one guy with an internet connection can reach many times the number of listeners at any time of the day or night that a radio station can at a fraction of the cost. The reason the commercial AM's went talk radio is cost. They don't have to pay DJ's, they don't have to pay royalties to artists for music played on the air and with modern solid state transmitters, they don't even need to pay a real engineer to maintain the transmitter. AM is a dying market so the only way they can survive is go talk radio and air commercials. The golden age of top 40 AM is long gone.

Back in analog days we got 3 Baltimore stations and 5 Washington DC stations. We also got a local NBC channel. Now we get one digital local channel that went from NBC to 3 wacko channels. We get zero mainstream channels and cannot receive any channels from DC and Baltimore. To me digital is the worst thing that ever happened to TV. Forces one to get cable or DSL.

@carlcushmanhybels8159

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! as he quickly alluded to( w/o explaining): Digital has a much shorter range than analog. If the stations don't /didn't invest in boosted signals and multiple regional antennas, it forces/ forced consumers onto Cable.

@8080pc

3 жыл бұрын

I threw out the TV completely in 2009 and got a tablet pc as a portable TV. Best ever.

@triadwarfare

3 жыл бұрын

Wait, you guys still get DSL?

@triadwarfare

3 жыл бұрын

Wait, you guys still get DSL?

@thesoundsmith

3 жыл бұрын

Get a TV that can stream from the internet. There are LOTS of actually free sites that offer live TV from all over the US, plus older shows and movies, some with commercials, some not. We have Netflix and Prime, but half my viewing is on channels like Crackle and Paramount+ - free subscriptions to fill you email with spam, so create a gmail account just for this purpose.

I agree with previous posts: the US government is acting as muscle for big corporate interests whose social consciousness is approximately none.

@wiz4020

3 жыл бұрын

They definitely do that with big pharma.

@EarthChickadee

2 жыл бұрын

Turn the TV completely OFF...... it's not called "programming" for nothing. I stopped watching their propaganda well over 15 years ago. It's the MEDIA that's the *REAL* virus........ ( to the point that people will believe the "news" EVEN IF it directly conflicts with what they *SEE* with their own eyes......)

@jacobfreeland6881

8 ай бұрын

All governments turn into plutocracies with enough time. Nothing to see here.

I like how you could flip through the channels very quickly, with digital it takes a second or two to load each channel.

@gordonslomba2532

6 ай бұрын

Yes yes yes I want that back

@Operationalexcellence263

6 ай бұрын

Exactly

@RedTroPc

5 ай бұрын

Yeahh

Static wasn't distracting, but that little girl singing "they're heeerre" was.

@ryanatorryanson9535

3 жыл бұрын

Nice Poltergeist reference.

@Card_lol

3 жыл бұрын

Hate it when that happens

@R8Spike

3 жыл бұрын

I can't do shit with the noise of static. I get a headache soo bad that thing is a torture device

@rerejones9095

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I miss the days when stations would sign off with the nation anthem 'Thus concludes another fine broadcasting day!' the sad native American.

@gaylenewood7707

3 жыл бұрын

Yep at 6am in the morning the farmers market news comes on channel 10 yeah I use to watch it with my dad when he gets off work and brings home some Dixie delights donuts and each of us little cartons of chocolate milk I miss those times😭.

@slackhackman9115

3 жыл бұрын

@@gaylenewood7707 I weep with ya. 😥 It's funny where we pick up fond memories.

@LaikaLycanthrope

3 жыл бұрын

@@gaylenewood7707 I remember waking up to Jack Lalanne.

@jeromewysocki8809

3 жыл бұрын

Slack Hackman, yup, I remember those days well. Just before midnight, we would get the latest local weather forecast, station identification, and with wording similar to what you described. Very dignified and professional. Then the announcer would say, "Ladies and gentlemen! Our national anthem." After that, they'd pull the big switch, and all you saw on the TV screen, and heard on the speaker was static, until 6:00 am, the following morning. They would then have a video test pattern on for 15 minutes, then begin their broadcast day, starting with our national anthem. Very different than with today's routines.

@mandyhp

3 жыл бұрын

@@LaikaLycanthrope Yep, in black and white.

What I miss most, was the instant channel changing. Now we get high tech lag when changing channels. So glad things are faster and better... Oh wait...

@2utoday

3 жыл бұрын

I bought a new TCL TV with built in ROKU that has instant digital channel changing without any lag. And I can get about 45 digital TV channels with an over the air antenna. It looks like digital TV has come of age.

@danielmorse4213

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Switch..lag..switch...no signal...lag. turn off

@2utoday

2 жыл бұрын

@@arnoldoraye3436 Say whatever floats your boat.

@JohnDgr81

2 жыл бұрын

YEP!....I cut the cord a long time ago!...NO CABLE!...And I was happy with my antenna tv, and numerous local channels, and KZread!...but now KZread is “force feeding” endless commercials, and interrupting videos mid-sentence, and wasting my data with paralyzing “buffering”!......WTF!

@JohnDgr81

2 жыл бұрын

@@2utoday YES!....thats what big tech wants!....pay MORE money,for more gadgets, for watching trouble free TV!...whatever gadgets you got, will be obsolete very soon, and you will have to pay, and buy more shit, AGAIN!....I guess that’s OK if you have money to burn, or a tree that grows 20 dollar bills!....lol!

In a few weeks? They did that in 2009. I remember the good old days, when my television worked. When I had a TV-VCR that I could just record quality content I actually wanted to see off the air waves and watch it later. Those were the days. Sadly it seems progress is regressing.

@LegoWormNoah101

2 жыл бұрын

That 2009 deadline was for high power TV stations. Low power stations were scheduled to shut down in 2015, but was pushed back to July 13th, 2021, except for Alaska where temperatures are so cold there's only a small window of time to safely work on the towers

@realmichaud

Жыл бұрын

I agree, and we got way less freedom now than we did back then.

@andreakovesdineforgacs2842

Жыл бұрын

In Hungary, some MRTV or something shut down in 2013, the memory is still in my mind.

Poor quality analog tv signal beats a poor quality digital signal any day.

@SilentEcho9194

3 жыл бұрын

TV and cellphone both. Where I live is only hills, not mountains and the cellphone network is very substandard.

@christopherstory2136

3 жыл бұрын

I've in a big city and get POOR reception OTA. Tried different antennas, locations no avail - ans even when they do work ypu have to keep rescanning....

@jhoughjr1

3 жыл бұрын

quite true.

@frisbee544

3 жыл бұрын

WELL SAID!

@AFmedic

3 жыл бұрын

With poor quality digital signal you get a pixelated screen and NO audio. With a poor quality analog signal you can still make out the image somewhat AND you still have audio. Give me back my analog.

This makes the Weird Al movie UHF even more nostalgic.

@dampergoldenrod4156

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know what the Blockbuster movie of 1988 was but I know UHF with Weird Al was much better cuz I watched the movie back then

@rgruenhaus

3 жыл бұрын

Amish Paradise with no technology at all!

@CommodoreGreg

3 жыл бұрын

@@dampergoldenrod4156 Al mentions the blockbusters they were up against on the UHF DVD.

@rhostatton8944

3 жыл бұрын

UHF was bomb movie bro

@thefractalcurve5462

3 жыл бұрын

We Got It All On UHF!!

"The FCC won't let me be or let me be me so let me see, they tried to shut me down on MTV but it feels so empty without me." Eminem

@siberianXmustang

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! I see I’m not the only one that thinks of this lyric when I hear FCC

@galaxyii

3 жыл бұрын

“So come on and dip, bum on your lips, **** that! *** on your lips and some on your ****, and get ready cause this ****’s about to get heavy, I just settled all my lawsuits, **** you Debbie!”

@Dastardly_X

2 жыл бұрын

This looks like a job for me 🌟

I remember when t.v. stations signed off at midnight while playing the National Anthem.😁

@elainephleps4705

2 жыл бұрын

Yes thank you. And you went outside an played!!

@mravatar9616

2 жыл бұрын

I miss that.

@anothercomment3451

2 жыл бұрын

You should see the video showing the many subliminal messages we watched back then, INside that anthem we were watching. Crazy evil at it's beginning. Programming. Yes, indeed!

@anothercomment3451

2 жыл бұрын

@@elainephleps4705 until the streetlights came on... :)

@xtremer_daredevil5950

2 жыл бұрын

before the advent of 24 hrs TV stations

As with everything else at least in the US, "FOLLOW THE MONEY"!

@frisbee544

3 жыл бұрын

And the Washington, DC Communists who want it all.

@Mt-ue9qz

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the same strategy for prosecuting Rumpus. Go get’m!

@MR..181

3 жыл бұрын

Bribes from China to destroy the communications system, news, ect, and force the buying of a complete new system, law...

@billvojtech5686

3 жыл бұрын

Even in communist “paradise”, it’s FOLLOW THE MONEY.

@mattboland7063

2 ай бұрын

:(

Yep, I miss analog TV. I miss the snowy stations, I miss the decent family shows. 📺📺📺

@2utoday

3 жыл бұрын

Many digital TV sub channels today broadcast reruns of those decent family shows. In my area, I get digital TV sub channels like METV, ANTENNA TV, and GET TV that broadcast those old TV shows using an amplified indoor TV antenna. In other areas, digital sub channels like DECADES and FETV also broadcast reruns of high quality old TV shows from back in the day.

@kevinmccool3719

3 жыл бұрын

I would much rather watch a snowy analog picture than a digital breaking up and freezing or just drop out. I absolutely despise digital over the air tv. It's such a pain in the ass to get a good signal unless you have a really good antenna. I had no issues with analog static, ghosting etc.. With just rabbit ears, you still had a picture. Used to enjoy the old pocket Sony watchman tv's.

@michaelhuynh8793

3 жыл бұрын

The philphines still analog

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmccool3719 Most people would rather watch perfect digital television than snowy analog television and that's what most people are watching.

@Zebra_3

3 жыл бұрын

@@2utoday they're mostly edited to add more crappy commercials.

I miss analog because for me, once I found a good antenna placement I never had to move it much. Nowadays, if my neighbor goes to get a drink from the fridge my signal freezes.

The answer to almost every "why" question is . . . money. At some point some body gets the idea; if we do X and claim we are doing it for some noble reason, we can make a ton more money than we are currently making. There are thousands of laws that aim to improve things, or claim to improve them, which are really just about forcing people to spend money in different ways.

@slick6363

2 жыл бұрын

Yep.And it made our Politicians, Big Pharma, Lobbyists all over very rich and us very poor. Time to change this.

@EdwardSnortin

2 жыл бұрын

Like coronavirus vaccines?

@valtorswife

Жыл бұрын

@@EdwardSnortin like that

Digital the powers that be can simply shut it down with a click and the people are "in the dark" Analog they can not.

@jakewarner1993

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, clearly, they did just that to analog too. The FCC said to shut it down to free up channels and just like that we had no more analog stations. So yeah, just as easy for them to make it go dark on you.

@voidofspaceandtime4684

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakewarner1993 Just as easy to make it go dark - for those that just go along with it. Anybody that would choose not to could technically avoid the issue for longer than if a giant company just wanted to shut down a digital platform.

@jochenstacker7448

3 жыл бұрын

I thought they did just that?

@katewizer2736

3 жыл бұрын

They have less control of our choices on analog ! !

@rome79735

3 жыл бұрын

@@katewizer2736 Exactly!! plus the analog tv can't be spied on.

The TV isn't distracting it's just nostalgic. Brings memories from the good old days when a channel even if it had a little static it was watchable and with a good antenna not only you got great picture but you could receive channels from far away (especially during summer and sometimes winter) The digital TV either works or not. Both analog and digital have their own advantages and disadvantages.

@CommodoreFan64

3 жыл бұрын

I actually found it kind of calming, it's like staring out into the void of space!

@chetpomeroy1399

3 жыл бұрын

@@CommodoreFan64 Actually, you're not far off. A small percentage of that snow is a remnant of the Big Bang, and some of it is from supernovas and quasars. Looking at that is seeing very, very far back in time.

@woodyhayes7402

3 жыл бұрын

@@chetpomeroy1399 - Thanks, for comment. Tell me about this "Big-Bang" seems like I've heard it before, but not sure.

@chetpomeroy1399

3 жыл бұрын

@@woodyhayes7402 I personally first heard about the Big Bang, at least in detail, from astronomer Carl Sagan, the host of the 1980 TV miniseries _"Cosmos."_ kzread.info/dash/bejne/oY6s3NidgZubqrg.html

@chetpomeroy1399

3 жыл бұрын

@NS 317 I remember when most areas only had three TV stations, and they would sign on at 7:00 and sign off before midnight. We got really excited when a brand new TV station signed on the air.

Great video! I was working at a student television station back in 2009 when the high powered channels were forced to switch to digital. We were low powered, but we took the opportunity to upgrade our signal strength by getting a new digital transmitter. So back then I was following this very closely, thanks for the update. I had no idea there were still analog stations out there that recently.

I grew up with the old analog television I remember way back before they had remotes WE were the remote if you wanted to change the channel you had to get up off your ass and physically change the channel

Once again when the government gets involved it usually ends up worse than the beginning. ✌✌

@0852657luis

3 жыл бұрын

This wasn't government intervention this was lobbyist greed and control straight and simple.

@benchurch2781

3 жыл бұрын

Umm, the government has always been involved. The FCC makes signal broadcast possible by assigning frequencies. The most recent head of the FCC that sold off even more analog signal was Aijit Pai, a Verizon lobbyist resident Trump put in. The issue is private interests, not government.

@doom5895

3 жыл бұрын

@@benchurch2781 he's a commie

@Criss.Ben.76

3 жыл бұрын

We can blame the government also, but it's always rich jack asses bribing government officials to screw everyone over in the end.

@Criss.Ben.76

3 жыл бұрын

@@doom5895 I love when right-wingers use terms & catch phrases they learned at tRump rallies without really knowing what they mean. So adorably ignorant!

I miss analog. It seemed that there were more choices, especially in syndicated TV markets, available back then.

@maxwellcrazycat9204

3 жыл бұрын

I used to be able to get one side of a mobile phone conversation on the high end of UHF. It was sometimes interesting.

The FCC should have made the digital TV transition optional because there could be reception problems in mountainous areas and analog portable TVs can be used during an emergency (because there are no battery powered converter boxes). What we can do now is allow TV stations to optionally broadcast an analog signal along with the digital signal to fix these problems.

As a 15 year old, i’m kinda bored of being able to watch what I want when I want. It might sound weird but when somethings not just a commodity anymore, you get tired of it. Tv, videogames, they’ve all changed from what they used to be and I think I would really enjoy trying out how it used to be. Edit: 17 now, my opinions changed a bit. Don't get me wrong I still really enjoy old tech, but I can appreciate the fact that I have internet. I probably wouldn't have the same interests as I do now if it weren't for the internet, and im glad I have the ability to use it without having tons of social medias like TikTok. KZreads pretty much the only thing I use extensively, and thats good enough for me.

@windows_2000

9 ай бұрын

Same except im 10. I love that fuzzines of analog and the quality, like i say "if the quality is worse it makes it better". It just has a different atmosphere looking at that quality of videos, audio, colors instead of seeing too high quality things

@ARandomInternetUser08

9 ай бұрын

I'm 21 now, but I do not feel like it. I'm an old timer and I'm a big fan of old tech. I do still have a few old analog CRT TVs and one I even hooked up a VCR and an antenna to the VCR and TV, to create a makeshift "analog TV channel", but its range is quite literally inches because the signal isn't amplified and it's purely coming from the VCR with no amplifier, which I won't take the risk of doing. At least I get to experience some form of "analog TV". Old tech was so much better. Everything is just too easy now.

Let me guess…corporate greed, political lobbying, and…yep that’s usually it

@lonewolfallen5222

3 жыл бұрын

And brainwashing!!

The reason was to shut off public access. Anyone with a big enough antenna could broadcast their message.

@specialopsdave

3 жыл бұрын

Watch his video reviewing an ATSC HD modulator, you can totally set up your own broadcast still

@metalstephie79

3 жыл бұрын

@@specialopsdave It also had the impact that less of the population has the equipment to receive a broadcast too.

@nolgroth

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one to consider this.

@marioreds7826

3 жыл бұрын

Come on, lol .. nowadays with KZread anyone for free can spread their message, either with a post, just like you did here, or with videos.

@metalstephie79

3 жыл бұрын

@@marioreds7826 Digital platforms can "delete and ban" in seconds.

My favorite part of tv is when they interrupt the commercials to play a little bit of a show...

You know I'm the Original "Antenna Man"... My company was happening back in the mid 70s. I was one of the first On TV distributors. Good video. I'm also a ham operator and I love RF myself.

They should've kept at lest one analog station running for emergency broadcasting &/or weather.

@rxgtv

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@Kaiyats

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody will be able to pick it up as no one owns a damn analog receiver

@Rudofaux

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kaiyats I take it you didn't know that all modern televisions can pick up analog signals as well as digital?

@LtJackboot

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rudofaux I didn't know that either! Thanks :-)

@moretimethanmoney8611

3 жыл бұрын

NOAA

I only have two words to describe this change: ‘’VERY SAD”

@sagnhill

3 жыл бұрын

So you would rather watch low quality, low definition TV?

@ZooScott

3 жыл бұрын

@@sagnhill 🆘 AYEP 💥

@sagnhill

3 жыл бұрын

@Lone Wolf I had no idea there were people who loved to watch low def, low quality TV. Must be like those people who actually believe that vinyl sounds better than CDs. Amazing. Just astonishing.

@efandmk3382

3 жыл бұрын

You seem to have the same expansive vocabulary as Fat Donald.

@efandmk3382

3 жыл бұрын

@@sagnhill Actually, vinyl does sound better than CDs. BTW, CDs are pretty much gone now. Catch up. You have a better chance of finding something you like now on vinyl than on CD. That is, if you're still tied to physical copies and mechanical players.

Forcing digital TV was the final straw for my parents. It goes out way to much up here in the mountains. After it kept going down a lot last year, my parents just decided to get good internet and a smart TV. Saving them a lot of money too.

@2utoday

2 жыл бұрын

There is also satellite TV using small round dish antennas on your house that sends out many TV channels for a monthly subscription.

This popped up in my recommendation and I went "Oh yeah, I remember when everyone had to get cable". That was something that I didn't even think about for about 12 years until now. Thanks for the information.

The snowy picture brings back memories of being a kid in the 60s/70s in Cleveland, OH and turning the antenna rotor North towards Canada and looking for images to pop thru the snow. Good times.

@ronb6182

3 жыл бұрын

Yes like getting two or more VHF tv channels just turn the antenna. I got stations from Canada, Buffalo NY Erie Pa, Clearfield Pa, Cleveland Ohio, and Pittsburgh Pa. All on VHF TV. Ps I forgot the third channel 2 from Detroit Michigan.

@ronb6182

3 жыл бұрын

I also used to get WJKF FM in the attic where my bedroom was. The station was in Pittsburgh and I used the 300 ohm twin lead antenna that was 5 feet long plus the lead. An outdoor antenna would have pulled in other Pittsburgh FM stations. No cable tv or FM needed.

@NitePHX

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronb6182 Sitting on the floor late at night in front of your console TV manually changing channels with a dial looking for anything discernible thru all the snow. We talk of things that today's generation will never know of.

@NC8ED

3 жыл бұрын

Watching the Cleveland Browns on Channel 10. Some Toronto stations were viewable on UHF.

@ronb6182

3 жыл бұрын

@@NC8ED I didn't try too much UHF except for Erie channels 24 and 35. 35 was pirate Baseball. Away and home games. We didn't get much work or play done during the day as kids. Well all this is gone now and the MLB would not air many games in this day.

It wasn't only TV frequencies that were sold off. The FCC decimated Amateur Radio starting back in the 90's by selling traditional HAM frequencies as well. I got my Novice license in 1991, my upgraded Technician licnese has multiple paragraphs denoting the frequency changes and listing the bands that I am no longer allowed to broadcast on. Government greed knows no boundaries.

@thephoenixhasflown

3 жыл бұрын

Oh good so the three letter word ate ham like Easter dinner as well I actually was not aware of that.

Thank you for all of the informative videos produced by you over the years. I’m OTA in Anchorage Alaska, thanks to your knowledge

I remember in Canada a few years ago they switched and we had to get new rabbit ears to even get the news. It's still kind of sketchy but we still get the same 3 channels.

FCC tried to auction off those frequencies, and it failed miserably.

@rogerbartlet5720

3 жыл бұрын

It's the government, what do you expect?

@kachoo2135

3 жыл бұрын

The FCC and the government can both go to Hell

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

@@kachoo2135 Don't forget to tell them to fix your roads too.

@chuckleberryfinn1992

3 жыл бұрын

I'd say they got that road work covered in the infrastructure package , chock full of good intentions& all...

When the controversy was heated, I remember Donald Rumsfeld being interviewed (on television), stating that the government wanted some of those frequencies because the intelligence agencies needed them to "see through walls".

@phyllismitchell7623

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I'm talking about.

@txmetalhead82xk

3 жыл бұрын

That’s more like it

@Menaceblue3

3 жыл бұрын

"There's known 'knowns', known 'unknowns', and unknown 'unknowns'.... things we don't even know about!"

@graceandpeace4414

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!.

@voidofspaceandtime4684

3 жыл бұрын

Don't need those signals for that, WIFI is way better and more detailed. Just less effective as wall penetration - not that it's needed when you can map out everyone's entire house layouts with hardware they pay for themselves.

Here in Chile, analog TV continues until April 9, 2024. I think the analog shutdown is like a form of planned obsolescence, especially since people will just throw away their old antennas or even TV sets, which would therefore harm the environment. EDIT: I was wrong about the date. It was from a random news source.

@brunoelfandeyoutubeoficial

2 ай бұрын

Hello, I come from the future and I inform you that here in Chile analog television has already been turned off on April 15, 2024.

@SoyLuciano

2 ай бұрын

@@brunoelfandeyoutubeoficial It was actually 6 days earlier, on April 9.

Thank you for explaining this. I never switched over. When they made the change here, I just stopped watching television. Extreme, but true.

I used to drive across country with a CRT TV at my side and tune into local stations as I drove through/past towns. What I noticed is yes, digital is "fragile." You can't be moving at more than 2mph and pick up a stable channel, even with an antenna.

@efandmk3382

3 жыл бұрын

Do you really think it's a good idea to watch TV while you're driving?

@J-1410

3 жыл бұрын

@@efandmk3382 probably slightly better than being on one's phone

@oskardeoz6823

2 жыл бұрын

probably he was just listening to the TV, sometimes I just turn my TV not to watch but to listen like the news or sports

@Onizukachan915

7 ай бұрын

It has no forward error correction, atsc1.0 that is, in other countries with other formats digital does and as long as you aren’t doing over 100 mph, you get it crystal clear in your car.

@JimmyLoose

7 ай бұрын

So you can watch it crystal clear (while moving) in OTHER countries, but not the US? Am I understanding that correctly?@@Onizukachan915

Static is very mesmerizing. Sometimes you can see stuff in it.

@2utoday

3 жыл бұрын

What you see in static is called an optical illusion. The same thing happens when you stare at any object or picture for awhile. You start seeing things that do not really exist.

@BrucesWorldofStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I know... I've see people in the static when I was a kid in the 60's. I still do.. :-) LLAP

@kevinmccool3719

3 жыл бұрын

Yes most definitely, it's really creepy, but cool too.

@Soxruleyanksdrool

3 жыл бұрын

I can see stuff in the static if I've been into the mushrooms.

@MR..181

3 жыл бұрын

Sex in the 80s

In the Florida Panhandle we get T-storms almost every afternoon and the Digital signal is wiped out, same with hurricanes. This is for both major dish providers. When I had the satellite services I had to keep an rabbit ear antenna for back up. The rabbit ears are worthless now. I switched to cable and it almost never goes out.

I refuse to get cable or satellite. But I frequently have to adjust the antenna on my over the air TV, even though I cannot find any plausible reason for it (ex: new obstruction to signal). Are the over the air TV stations bribed by the cable and satellite networks to keep monkeying around with their transmitters in an effort to get them to go over to cable and satellite? Or are the cable and satellite networks jamming the over the air signals?

The major advantage of analog TV is that I can have more than one on the same channel and the picture and sound are always in sync.

Why did the FCC kill analog TV? GREED!

@CommodoreFan64

3 жыл бұрын

It for sure seems that way.

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

Doubtful.

@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully, ATSC 3 fixes most, if not all of the issues that were widespread after everyone's transition. kzread.info/dash/bejne/rIaVzaOueLTNpdI.html ATSC was already outdated when it overtook NTSC.

@zeroone8800

3 жыл бұрын

Congress told the FCC to do so.

@Justin-Hill-1987

3 жыл бұрын

The only real good thing to come out of ATSC 1.0 are the digital subchannels, like MeTV, H&I, Comet, Start TV, Bounce TV, Court TV, This TV, Retro TV, Laff, etc. Those channels were great alternatives to the stuff available on cable. I hope ATSC 3.0 expands on that idea even further. Right now, ATSC 3.0 is in testing.

I remember when the local news stations were advising everyone with an analog TV to get their free DTV converter box before the switch. Back in ‘09 if I remember correctly. Those things were everywhere. It’s amazing how many people relied on analog tube tvs not that long ago. Now you’d be shocked if you visited someone’s home and saw an analog TV with a DTV converter in their living room.

It shouldn't make you this happy to have a major thing reasonably explained, not subjected to extremism or fearmongering. So so happy. Great video.

The static in the video really messed with the KZread compression and lowered the video quality for the times when it was visible on screen.

@pickleme

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, sure did, very distracting

I think the worst thing about Digital TV is that it just cuts off instead of degrading slowly with signal issues. My time on antenna ended when I couldn't handle the sound interruptions that occurred simply from walking through the room.

@geggy310

8 ай бұрын

My digital tv signal flips out whenever someone walks near the tv

Is there any situation where Analogue TV could make a comeback, or are at the point of no return? I'd love to see it become a public access frontier much like youtube in it's first few years. Just people broadcasting whatever they like.

@seanhamilton4169

4 күн бұрын

Of course, people can bring back analog television, but they need to improve it. It needs to be of a higher spatial (line count) and temporal resolution and something needs to be done about the bandwidth. For it becoming a public access frontier, not every person is fully capable of using the available equipment necessary. After all, the future is totally not knowable.

My understanding was the UHF frequency ranges were ideal for cellular use, particularly the lower frequency ranges that allowed Verizon Wireless to make the claims that they had the greatest coverage even in rural places, etc.

At least in Vietnam, DVB-T2 was more tolerant of multipath distortion rather than ATSC. Basically, the US only does it for greed rather than get a decent system to handle digital broadcasting.

@khangphamchannel016

3 жыл бұрын

@TsunamiFPS not every house can afford cable or satellite, but my family in Vietnam managed to have enough money for satellite for some sports events that National tv can’t buy the rights for it.

@GahnooLunix

3 жыл бұрын

Europe has their own digital TV standard (DVB), as does Japan (ISDB) and the PRC (DTMB). Big reason why all these different standards exist is to protect the domestic industry in these countries developing these technologies.

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

@@GahnooLunix Actually the reason is that technology had improved as each country adopted digital television at different times.

@zeroone8800

3 жыл бұрын

When working on ATSC it was decided rural coverage rather than urban was to be optimized, so they chose VSB instead of OFDM used in the rest of the world. VSB is the digital equivalent of the way analogue worked. VSB can't handle multipath or movement of the antenna.

@michaelhuynh8793

3 жыл бұрын

My family has a house in Vietnam we still have analog cable in late 2017 and late 2019 and the philphines still analog

So I've noticed that this is a 2160p (4K) KZread video but feels like the source recording is only 480p (SD), definitely no higher than 720p (HD). Did you record this video at a lower quality then upscale it to 4k? I'm curious if you intended to achieve this effect or not.

@AetherCollective

3 жыл бұрын

I've looked at some more of your videos and it appears you do the same in all of them. It's like you are recording from a laptop webcam. Is there a reason you would render 4k even though the source video's quality is so blurry and devoid of details?

Interesting video! Here in Brazil the analog switch off started in 2015 in the biggest cities. Until the end of 2018 gradually all big and medium size cities and some smaller cities ended this transition. But, since then, we're pretty much stuck. There is no more official schedule to be followed, only the "vague" date of December 31st 2023 and then all analog TV must shut down. The big problem is that there are a lot of small cities and rural areas that only have analog TV available and it would be too expensive to buy the digital TX to cover those areas. The TV stations are trying 2 things to work around this. 1. Ask the federal government to help with extra money. 2. Join forces to cover the analog areas with shared infrastructure. In any of those scenarios we have problems. The government said that there's no money for that, and even if you share some part of the gear you will still need separate TXs for each channel, since sub channels here cannot be used to commercial TV, only to public and educational broadcast. I was the manager of a TV station in a city with over 300k population in 2018 during the analog switch off and even at the moment we turned the analog TX we had people calling asking for help. And surveys we had showed that 94% of the population had digital receivers at that time. I believe it will be a nightmare in 2023. Anyway, I want to ask you one thing. You said that you even got channel 2 from Canada once. What is the deadline there for analog?

The very first "Repack" was in 1948, with the removal of channel 1. While it was a thing, it was so unreliable, with very bad picture quality (I believe it, as WGBH 2 never looked good), so it was scrapped, and given to EMS for their radio equipment.

@gregoryalec689

3 жыл бұрын

I still have my bw 📺 with channel one

@davenwin1973

3 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that for channel 1, that it was good to be for smaller markets with a reduced range.

@georgef551

3 жыл бұрын

@@davenwin1973 I read something similar. It seems the history of channel 1 isn't very clear, as there were multiple answers as to why it failed, and was removed, but what I've seen seems to be the most common answer. Your use is also the popular one for what it was to be for.

@kevinmccool3719

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen one old tv set a long time ago that had channel 1 on it. Interesting stuff.

It was certainly more reliable if you live on the fringe of the “viewing area.” Getting messages via a slightly snowy signal vs one that is severely pixelated (or non existent). The FCC sux.

I live in a rural area. Once the conversion to digital happened, I’ve never received am OTA channel. I’ve used multiple external digital tuners and internal digital tuners on several newer TVs. It’s quite frustrating.

Why does analog give instant pictures reception when digital takes 3/4 to 1 second for a picture to appear. What is the reason for the lag time .Will the technology ever advance to match analog . Example 2 tv’s side by side switching channels the analog tv shows instant picture . Digital will display what’s on that channel sometimes but picture about about second later .

I think I may have mentioned this before, but, for a few years after the transition (although I don't think that I thought much about it for a while) I just thought that 'ALL' over the air tv stations moved to digital until I saw a video probably around 2016 to probably about 2018 on KZread where someone recorded the fact that there was a station or 2 (or maybe more) in analog still left.

@AntennaMan

3 жыл бұрын

Check out my video below. I found several analog TV stations in NY a few months ago. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYmbk82ydaaen8o.html

@morganrussman

3 жыл бұрын

@@AntennaMan I am pretty positive I've seen the video, and is pretty interesting that you did find some of those stations.

Besides the static, it would have been nice to have an old set of rabbit ears antennas with aluminum foil on the tips. A proper send off to anolog.

@usmale4915

3 жыл бұрын

Good comment and I have been there myself with the rabbit ears AND aluminum foil on the tips! LOL Good times indeed!

"Hopefully this isn't too distracting" KZread compression: Brrrrrr....

I still have a tube television with a digital to analog converter box. Does anyone know if it will still work? I'm light sensitive so I don't like the bright newer televisions. Thanks.

And now for the MAIN reason, big brother can spy on us sooo muuuch better with digital! 👀

@fukofutube22

3 жыл бұрын

Bingo

@efandmk3382

3 жыл бұрын

LOL. You know, they have medication for your condition now.

@craigcook1571

3 жыл бұрын

@@efandmk3382 Lol

@sevenmile

3 жыл бұрын

@@efandmk3382 "Google Sidewalk"

@LIVITLUVIT

3 жыл бұрын

@@efandmk3382 and there is a killer virs outside ......but you don't anyone sick and neither do I or anyone I know or anyone you know ....news articles now openly talking about checking your personal phone text messages for see what ur talking about the cov and bribing people to get shot up with chemicals ....digital TVs are just 1 or your 99 problems

It sounds funny but I enjoyed watching shows like Taxi with the snowy receptom.My Aunts ranch house in way rural West Texas barely picked up the Lubbock stations. I associated a loving country home with scraping by and being thankful for what we had.

@gaylenewood7707

3 жыл бұрын

The only show I didnt miss really was the friggin brady bunch oh gosh I'm so glad that went away I got tired of hearing about that dumb Marsha marsha whining..but one thing I enjoy watching was bj.and the bear that show was great..

@supersaiyaman11589

3 жыл бұрын

wene i was a kid i remember not likening the bad reception. Just because i was grateful to have a tv doesn't mean i liked the bad reception.

@gaylenewood7707

2 жыл бұрын

@Bill Jonston Well that remake of dukes of hazzard with jessica Simpson in it that was a crappy one yikes but the brady bunch that one woman was in the purge two movie it was glorious to see her almost get killed in that you oughta check it out..

Antenna Man I live in Southeast Georgia area code 30415. I put up an antenna about 2 years ago. One particular station out of Savannah was not coming in clearly, so I raised my antenna about 7 feet. Now that particular station comes in clear as a bell but the sound is choppy on my TV in the living room. However, on my TV back in my bedroom which is on the same antenna brings the same station in fine with no choppy sound. I’ve made sure my Smart TV had all the updates, but sound is still choppy. Since it is doing it on one TV but not the other, the only other thing I’m thinking is to do a factory reset on the TV to see if this would fix it. I’d appreciate any info you could give me on solving this mystery.

Analog TV was the last TV I watched. The switch to digital during the time that people were adopting online streaming was like the nail in the coffin for TV, as people didn't care to go and buy fancy new shit for their old TVs and simply got rid of them instead, and never bothered with TV again

@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden

2 ай бұрын

I feel that’s why there’s been a decline in entertainment recently since then. I still use the old TV’s but with cable. I don’t own the cable, I live with my parents. I’m trying to work on getting a converter box so I can get free TV when I move out on my own one day. Take note, I am 16. And we used to have digital converter boxes.

Shifting analog stations to low vhf sounds good to me. I grew up in a rural area and we only got three - later four when a local college added PBS - stations. I imagine we would have no television at all if I still lived in the area now.

@2utoday

3 жыл бұрын

People living in that rural area now should be able to get TV channels subscribing to satellite TV.

@NickG123

3 жыл бұрын

@@2utoday But its not FREE!

@BrucesWorldofStuff

3 жыл бұрын

@@2utoday But that is not free! Thats $100+ a month... LLAP

@thephoenixhasflown

3 жыл бұрын

You'd probably get one with a couple subs like down in Johnstown PA

@jeromewysocki8809

3 жыл бұрын

Bruce Scott , right, and you still have to put up with the commercials. Many years ago, it had no commercials, because, after all, your paid cable subscription was paying the bills. Not anymore.

I think the TV stations that had both analog and digital were happy to shut off their analog transmitters as it was quite expensive to run 2 transmitters. Analog transmitters were very power hungry compared to digital.

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

Actually modern NTSC transmitters had become very power efficient. They began using tricks like reducing the power during horizontal and vertical retracing since the viewer wouldn't notice it. The chief engineer at local station said that their last NTSC transmitter used about 20% less power than their ATSC transmitter.

@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottlarson1548 ATSC receiving are more pixelated compared to ISDB-T. ISDB-T receivers especially 1SEG, can receive DTV channels inside moving vehicle.

@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottlarson1548 IN MY COUNTRY PHILIPPINES, THEY USED NTSC. But they didn’t choose ATSC, but they adopted DVB-T (Pan American DTV frequencies; 6 MHz spacing) in 2005, then changed to ISDB-T in 2010. Some of their analog Tv channels in the Philippines were shut down in 2017 and 2018, for 2023, all analog TV channels in the Philippines will be shut off from NTSC to ISDB-T.

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY Yeah ATSC 1.0 is ten years older than ISDB! Should I be surprised?

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY To give you an idea of how much technology had changed in ten years, my local CBS station installed an HD MPEG-2 encoder in 2000. It was a sixteen processor supercomputer the size of a refrigerator and cost almost a million dollars. Ten years later they replaced it with a better MPEG-2 encoder that fit in a rack and cost $50,000. When the U.S. pioneered digital television in the late 90's, the processing power to decode an MPEG-2 high definition stream was just *barely* within a reasonably priced consumer product which was obviously the goal.

I have an old portable TV my dad used to use, he used to tell me stories about him surfing through all sorts of TV analog stations only using a copper wire and some smacking of the boob tube. I tried surfing some channels today and the best result I got was about 5 seconds of staticky, black and white (I think?) Family Fued. Damn.

Very interesting. Thank you for the new knowledge.

I remember how useful analog TV was for emergencies. The last hurricane that I experienced was without TV, Internet, or Cellphone. The system seems more fragile.🤔

@Spaghetti742

Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy fm/am radio hasn't gotten the boot yet. The only reliable way to know what tf is going on during an emergency since DTV cuts out

Yeah, I am experiencing poor reception in my area now that the summer months are upon us. I even lost WTEN CBS in Albany, NY completely. I did contact the chief engineer at WTEN and he said they were at reduced power because of antenna work. So, at least I can look forward to the return of that station in the future.

@OliveOyl12590

3 жыл бұрын

WTEN hasn't been a CBS affiliate since 1976. WTEN became an ABC affiliate in 1977 and WRGB has been Albany's CBS affiliate since 1982.

i enjoyed your topic. I admit I'm one of those old analog die hards, he he. It never ceases to amaze me whenever I discuss communications with people, how few of them understand what the letters FCC stand for and certainly much less that it is an agency operated and regulated by our government that has complete authority over ALL communications...I think most people believe all communications is 'magical' and naturally occurring...pass the pixie dust please.

My parents used analog until the shutdown and refused to change to digital. It meant I grew up with analog, watching cable on a 5-inch screen since phones were banned. As of today, the TV is still there but is no longer used. My parents haven’t watched a TV ever since

Analog tv is more reliable its way easier to get the stations in

As a kid we'd called them fly fights not snow. Poor man's wrestling.

@notgonnaduit6315

2 жыл бұрын

My wife called it ant races😁

What about amatuer tv, like amateur (ham) radio, can you still do that on analog or does that have to be digital, too?

How about back when you pushed the knob in to turn the tv off and the screen shrunk to a little black dot until it disappeared? And upon turning it on it had to ‘warm up’ first.

It would have been nice if channels 2 through 13 were left for Analog only and all digital was 14 and higher. That would have left the option in remote areas with poor TV reception to allow for some TV. Also, if a user just wanted digital only, get a UHF antenna, rather than a VHF/UHF antenna. Unfortunately greed drove the decision process rather than logic.

I have reported on the continued closure of low power analog TV stations in Canada on my channel, and unfortunately the reason that these low power transmitter stations (mostly on VHF) which serve rural and isolated communities in Canada are being shut down is that they are owned by large media companies who are also in the cable and satellite business. These companies own the networks in Canada and are basically control over the air television. They deem the transmitter towers too costly to maintain and not generating enough revenue. Since viewers living in small isolated communities do not have internet that is reliable or fast enough for streaming, the loss of over the air television leaves them with no other choice than to pay for cable or satellite subscription services. Their only other option is to use free (FTA) satellite television, which is as close to OTA as they can get in those areas.📡 A good video but a sad situation.

Ever since they switched from analog to digital, I basically haven't had TV service at home. Digital broadcast is terrible quality--I couldn't pick up even nearby stations with a digital antenna. When they killed free analog broadcast TV, they killed TV for me.

@2utoday

3 жыл бұрын

@idreamofgenie - The answer for you is simple. Just get a satellite dish and subscribe to as many channels as you want. Or, get an internet device like ROKU and subscribe to as many internet channels as you want.

@idreamofgenie2599

3 жыл бұрын

@@2utoday I won't get satellite or cable TV. And all the streaming stuff is way beyond my technological abilities. My point was basically to say, free analog broadcast TV worked just fine--there was no need to get rid of it.

from i think 2019 to 2020 (please correct me if im wrong) my local Broadcasting channel WOWT 6 which also shut down their analog signal on February 17th 2009 had their digital signal very weak and at sometimes it didn't even work.

All I know is that I can't reliably pick up a single TV channel anymore.

@shotakonkin2047

3 жыл бұрын

Now I'm yong Hyaku Ni Jyou 四百二十代吸っています on the wacky tobbacy, the ganja wee laddy. I remember Invader Zim, my humor was pretty dark in my childhood.

@2utoday

3 жыл бұрын

@AliasUndercover - You need to get a satellite dish receiver and subscribe to satellite services so you can get plenty of TV channels.

When the locals switched to digital I lost FOX and CBS ... sucks for an NFL fan

@curtiskretzer8898

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that wasn't purposely contrived by digital providers

What analog channels are available in Arlington Texas, if any?

This happened in my country few years ago. People who sell TVs made huuge money, those devices break down fast, no repairs. As soon as the weather changes the cable company just breaks off connectivity and you have no picture or only frozen picture or only sand picture.