Comments on: DTV came, saw and conquered; was it good for you?

By: MadMike

MadMike — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:34:30 +0000

Oh, the DTV transition happened? I completely forgot about it and didn’t even notice. They delay was pointless and a waste of money.

@rodt: When did Comcast lie and tell everyone to get converters? I’m not backing up Comcast here, but every commercial I saw was “IF YOU HAVE COMCAST, YOU DO NOT, I REPEAT, YOU DO NOT NEED A DTV CONVERTER”. They plastered them all over the TV.

Now if you mean a Comcast digital cable box, yeah they have been know to slam customers into getting digital when they didn’t need it. However, that’s all about to change anyway because in my area Comcast went entirely digital to free up bandwidth for more HD channels. So you need a cable box or cable card in my area.

By: rodt

rodt — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:53:14 +0000

I hated it. I had so many people pissed off that Comcast lied to them and they had to get converters. I whole blame Comcast for misleading customers into thinking they were fine when in fact they were not.

By: Viral

Viral — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:04:26 +0000

One thing that a few friends have noticed that went virtually unmentioned during all the ramp up was that a good portion of those newfangled “HDTV” antennas were UHF only. A lot of major market broadcast stations switched their digital frequencies over to VHF at the on June 12. You could have a brand new top of the line digital HDTV, a $200 long-range multi-directional antenna professionally mounted and be SOL if your stations moved to VHF. For example, both the ABC and CBS affiliates in Washington DC did just this, now thousands who thought they were prepared can’t get 7 and 9 here. There’s no govt coupon for replacing and reinstalling a new antenna!

By: CanisMajor

CanisMajor — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:44:13 +0000

There, there, American. Now, was that so hard? Couldn’t we just have done all this a few months ago?

By: Reid

Reid — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:08:48 +0000

The only problem I know of is my spouse can’t listen to the local news on the car radio as that TV station can no longer be picked up.

By: Laz

Laz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:48:56 +0000

My wife can’t listen to her soaps on her Walkman that picked up TV reception before the change…

By: mingkee

mingkee — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:00:45 +0000

why are they slow?
it’s been 3 years for preparation

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:37:31 +0000

I can only imagine the hell those helps lines have to go through.