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Originally Posted by Turtle
So here in the good ol' US of A, the government a while back mandated that all TV broadcast transmissions change from analog to a digital signal. They offered coupons worth $40 to buy ~$50 converter boxes, and I got mine & hooked it up last week. Wow! Extra channels, little descriptions like on cable, sharper image, and of course yet another dang-blanged remote and another bling-blonged plug in the wall. 
Any other USA'ans got a handle on this? What about you outlanders? Do you have digital broadcast TV in your country?
They pull the plug on all analog broadcasts here on February 17thy.  
February 17, 2009 - Analog Television Broadcasting Gets Turned Off - Are You Ready? - What the Analog TV Broadcast Cut-off Date Means To Consumers |
We went to all digital here in South Eastern North Carolina back in the summer, so far it has worked out really well. I am hoping we will start getting some of the channels heretofore confined to cable like the SciFi channel, the Science channel, the History channel, the Military channel, Biography, and others that are really nothing but broadcast TV with commercials that we should not have to pay to receive.
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