No more TV antenna after FEB 09

Less T.V. more exercise, better for ya...

Computers relay info faster than the t.v. instead of sitting through the whole hr of Commercials/news to see all weather related issues.....google weather, pic a site , there you go.....

 

The FCC has been selling our air for almost 100 years, it is nothing new. They are just opening up a band.

Mark

 

We went over to DTV recently.
I have a USB port Digital TV receiver for my laptop.... works like a charm.

 

Its really amazing how far these perfect pictures travel. I can barley pick up the anolog signal from the (assuming )Twin Cities, but the digitals are perfectly clear. (at the Flying J in Black River Falls). I think its a GREAT thing for truckers and well worth any upgrade.

 

The nice thing about digital is either you have the signal or you don't.

Mark

 

The FCC has just approved rules on the highly-sought after, Google-attracting 700MHz wireless frequency band auction which will take place sometime next year. The agency has decided that one-third of the soon-to-be-empty band will be available to consumers under FCC chairman Kevin Martin's "open access" plan, which forces the winning bidder to keep the band accessible to any wireless device or application regardless of the maker, opening up options heretofore unseen on established networks. The 700MHz range -- which is being vacated by television broadcasters going digital -- is desirable because of its ability to travel long distances and easily penetrate walls, and Martin feels it could provide a "third pipe" to US homes, circumventing the established stranglehold cable and telephone companies have on bandwidth. A total of 60 megahertz will be auctioned off, with twenty-two of them "open," and another 10 set aside for a "national public safety" network. The auctioning off of the frequency is expected to raise as much as $15 billion for the federal treasury.

 

Ya, thats prime meat right there. But thats not TV itself persay. TV is on VHF and lower UHF. Up that high on UHF is used mainly for the remote links and tower to station relays. If you see the really tall broadcast towers out in the middle of no where, there is the wired rounded cone shaped arrays that point is the direction of the studio and back. I am guessing thats what is being vacated from the DTV move. Guessing the UHF and VHF will still be needed to actually send the DTV across. Not sure though. This is all guesses. I could be totally wrong.

 

You are right.............I have never heard of that part of the deal. But, I live on the east coast, we really don't have the wide open space like out west.

Mark