Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The End of Analog TV in America Is Near
Posted by Filip Norrgard in "NEWS" @ 02:00 AM
"Depending on the outcome of discussions in Congress, television as we know it may end at exactly midnight Dec. 31, 2006. That’s the date Congress targeted, a decade ago, for the end of analog television broadcasting and a full cutover to a digital format. If enforced, that means that overnight, somewhere around 70 million television sets now connected to rabbit ears or roof-top antennas will suddenly and forever go blank, unless their owners purchase a special converter box."
I have a feeling that the deadline will be pushed back a little, but we will have to see. In the small country I live in, the analog TV broadcasts will come to a stop in August 2007 when almost the whole country should be covered by digital TV broadcasts. That is after a few years of active marketing and informing the general population on digital set-top boxes and the end of analog TV.
In US, according to the article, there seems to be little (if any) active informing of the end of analog TV and that is where the bug will bite. What do you think? Is the end of 2006 too soon for pulling the plug on analog TV in the US?
I have a feeling that the deadline will be pushed back a little, but we will have to see. In the small country I live in, the analog TV broadcasts will come to a stop in August 2007 when almost the whole country should be covered by digital TV broadcasts. That is after a few years of active marketing and informing the general population on digital set-top boxes and the end of analog TV.
In US, according to the article, there seems to be little (if any) active informing of the end of analog TV and that is where the bug will bite. What do you think? Is the end of 2006 too soon for pulling the plug on analog TV in the US?
