Monday, June 15, 2009
DTV Bye-bye TV
Posted by Nathaniel Hoffman on Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:55 PM
citydesk got a little choked up on Friday, bidding adieu to analog television. Not because we were missing Friends, or whatever it is people are watching these days. It happened during a National Public Radio report on the digital transition in which television critic David Bianculli pointed out that poor kids, who learn to read on public television are most likely to be left behind by digital signals. Then he played “Sunny days, sweeping the clouds away…” the theme song to Sesame Street and we shed a tear for a bygone era.
Then we went home and found that our Idaho PTV was not coming in, despite our shiny new converter box.
Just one more reason to kill the TV.
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Nathaniel -- Thanks for listening, and for your reaction. Exactly the feeling I was hoping to elicit from someone. Glad to know it was you... -- David Bianculli
don't forget to rescan, many digital broadcasts before analog death day were on different channels than after.
your converter box needs to rescan for these new channels before you can watch big bird.
Not missing it. Seriously! Long ago it was called a wasteland and I haven't seen it shrink but grow larger and ever increasingly idiotic.
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