The End of Free OTA

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|| Dallas, TX, has the lowest cable TV penetration for a large city in the
|| USA. It's been said that the fact that as many as 18 OTA stations can
|| be received is partly to blame. I doubt Dallas has any greater reason
|| to drive people to satellite than any other city served by Comcast. So
|| the conclusion is a great many people watch OTA. Just how many of them
|| can readily switch to digital in 566 days from now remains to be seen.
||
|| Since I'm in the Dallas area market, I'd say all of them could. I switched
|| almost 2 years ago. It'll only take about an hour to switch. Starting next
|| year all you'll have to do is go to your local Walmart, Target, Bestbuy,
|| or a hundred other places and buy an ATSC converter box for close to
|| nothing using the $40 ciupon, take it home and install it in about 5
|| minutes.
||
||
|| You would think that poor old phil would know that by now. It's not like
|| the topic hasn't been beaten to death on this very newsgroup. Either he
|| treats this as a write only newsgroup or his memory has a five minute
|| half life.
|
|Who said I didn't know. Notice no "?" on my academic question. It is not
|an inquiry, it is an instruction to ponder. But then, this is probably
|beyond your language skills.
|
| An instruction? How is it an instruction?

It is an instruction (to MLM) "to ponder" (the point) rather than to treat
it as a question to be answered. It basically mean "hey you (MLM), I hereby
instruct you to ponder this point".

INSTRUCTU!!!1!1!

| Speaking of language skills ...

Which part didn't you understand?

Where you donut make sense.

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On 6 Aug 2007 20:00:42 GMT, wrote:

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:
| On 4 Aug 2007 01:03:37 GMT, wrote:
|
|In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Matthew L. Martin wrote:
|| Wes Newell wrote:
|| On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:30:03 +0000, phil-news-nospam wrote:
||
|| Dallas, TX, has the lowest cable TV penetration for a large city in the
|| USA. It's been said that the fact that as many as 18 OTA stations can
|| be received is partly to blame. I doubt Dallas has any greater reason
|| to drive people to satellite than any other city served by Comcast. So
|| the conclusion is a great many people watch OTA. Just how many of them
|| can readily switch to digital in 566 days from now remains to be seen.
||
|| Since I'm in the Dallas area market, I'd say all of them could. I switched
|| almost 2 years ago. It'll only take about an hour to switch. Starting next
|| year all you'll have to do is go to your local Walmart, Target, Bestbuy,
|| or a hundred other places and buy an ATSC converter box for close to
|| nothing using the $40 ciupon, take it home and install it in about 5
|| minutes.
||
||
|| You would think that poor old phil would know that by now. It's not like
|| the topic hasn't been beaten to death on this very newsgroup. Either he
|| treats this as a write only newsgroup or his memory has a five minute
|| half life.
|
|Who said I didn't know. Notice no "?" on my academic question. It is not
|an inquiry, it is an instruction to ponder. But then, this is probably
|beyond your language skills.
|
| An instruction? How is it an instruction?

It is an instruction (to MLM) "to ponder" (the point) rather than to treat
it as a question to be answered. It basically mean "hey you (MLM), I hereby
instruct you to ponder this point".

Not a suggestion, not a request, not a hope or wish, but an
instruction.

Let's see how much more pompous you can possibly get.

BW

wrote:
On 6 Aug 2007 20:00:42 GMT, wrote:

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:
| On 4 Aug 2007 01:03:37 GMT, wrote:
|
|In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Matthew L. Martin wrote:
|| Wes Newell wrote:
|| On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:30:03 +0000, phil-news-nospam wrote:
||
|| Dallas, TX, has the lowest cable TV penetration for a large city in the
|| USA. It's been said that the fact that as many as 18 OTA stations can
|| be received is partly to blame. I doubt Dallas has any greater reason
|| to drive people to satellite than any other city served by Comcast. So
|| the conclusion is a great many people watch OTA. Just how many of them
|| can readily switch to digital in 566 days from now remains to be seen.
||
|| Since I'm in the Dallas area market, I'd say all of them could. I switched
|| almost 2 years ago. It'll only take about an hour to switch. Starting next
|| year all you'll have to do is go to your local Walmart, Target, Bestbuy,
|| or a hundred other places and buy an ATSC converter box for close to
|| nothing using the $40 ciupon, take it home and install it in about 5
|| minutes.
||
||
|| You would think that poor old phil would know that by now. It's not like
|| the topic hasn't been beaten to death on this very newsgroup. Either he
|| treats this as a write only newsgroup or his memory has a five minute
|| half life.
|
|Who said I didn't know. Notice no "?" on my academic question. It is not
|an inquiry, it is an instruction to ponder. But then, this is probably
|beyond your language skills.
|
| An instruction? How is it an instruction?

It is an instruction (to MLM) "to ponder" (the point) rather than to treat
it as a question to be answered. It basically mean "hey you (MLM), I hereby
instruct you to ponder this point".

Not a suggestion, not a request, not a hope or wish, but an
instruction.

Let's see how much more pompous you can possibly get.


Poor old phil is pretty puffed up about himself. He reminds me of the
smallest rooster in the flock. Lots of puff, lots of noise and no hens.

Matthew

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Which one do you want?

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In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:
| On 6 Aug 2007 20:00:42 GMT, wrote:
|
|In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:
|| On 4 Aug 2007 01:03:37 GMT, wrote:
||
||In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Matthew L. Martin wrote:
||| Wes Newell wrote:
||| On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:30:03 +0000, phil-news-nospam wrote:
|||
||| Dallas, TX, has the lowest cable TV penetration for a large city in the
||| USA. It's been said that the fact that as many as 18 OTA stations can
||| be received is partly to blame. I doubt Dallas has any greater reason
||| to drive people to satellite than any other city served by Comcast. So
||| the conclusion is a great many people watch OTA. Just how many of them
||| can readily switch to digital in 566 days from now remains to be seen.
|||
||| Since I'm in the Dallas area market, I'd say all of them could. I switched
||| almost 2 years ago. It'll only take about an hour to switch. Starting next
||| year all you'll have to do is go to your local Walmart, Target, Bestbuy,
||| or a hundred other places and buy an ATSC converter box for close to
||| nothing using the $40 ciupon, take it home and install it in about 5
||| minutes.
|||
|||
||| You would think that poor old phil would know that by now. It's not like
||| the topic hasn't been beaten to death on this very newsgroup. Either he
||| treats this as a write only newsgroup or his memory has a five minute
||| half life.
||
||Who said I didn't know. Notice no "?" on my academic question. It is not
||an inquiry, it is an instruction to ponder. But then, this is probably
||beyond your language skills.
||
|| An instruction? How is it an instruction?
|
|It is an instruction (to MLM) "to ponder" (the point) rather than to treat
|it as a question to be answered. It basically mean "hey you (MLM), I hereby
|instruct you to ponder this point".
|
| Not a suggestion, not a request, not a hope or wish, but an
| instruction.

Exactly.


| Let's see how much more pompous you can possibly get.

With MLM, whatever it takes.

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| Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below |
| first name lower case at ipal.net / |
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Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:


One doesn't have to pay to hook every TV to a pay service, but then
you're deliberately ignoring that--or else you're tres stupid.


Ummm, we do. Our cable contract specifically mandates a one to one ratio .

Are you suggesting we steal service?

David DeLaney wrote:
wrote:
wrote:
| Not a suggestion, not a request, not a hope or wish, but an
| instruction.

Exactly.

| Let's see how much more pompous you can possibly get.

With MLM, whatever it takes.

Multi Lover Muggles? But that's an _illegal_ pyramid-power scheme, didn't
they tell you?


IFYPFY.

Matthew

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wrote:
wrote:
| Not a suggestion, not a request, not a hope or wish, but an
| instruction.

Exactly.

| Let's see how much more pompous you can possibly get.

With MLM, whatever it takes.

Multi Layer Muggles? But that's an _illegal_ pyramid-power scheme, didn't
they tell you?

Dave "to the point" DeLaney
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
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On 7 Aug 2007 01:54:24 GMT, wrote:

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:

Let's see how much more pompous you can possibly get.

With MLM, whatever it takes.

What do you hope to accomplish, in regard to Mr, Martin, by becoming
more and more pompous in your postings?

BW

On 2007-08-07, David DeLaney wrote:

Multi Layer Muggles? But that's an _illegal_ pyramid-power scheme, didn't
they tell you?

Dave "to the point" DeLaney

IWPTA "an illegal powerpoint scheme". As a friend of mine says,
"Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely." And

http://vanrees.org/research/papers/p...oning.gif/view

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/04/powerpoint_bad/

--
Unix is a user-friendly operating system. It's just very choosy about
its friends.

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:
| On 7 Aug 2007 01:54:24 GMT, wrote:
|
|In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:
|
| Let's see how much more pompous you can possibly get.
|
|With MLM, whatever it takes.
|
| What do you hope to accomplish, in regard to Mr, Martin, by becoming
| more and more pompous in your postings?

Maybe you should actually take a look and see who is the more pompous.

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| Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below |
| first name lower case at ipal.net / |
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