WABC-TV turns analog off [youtube video]

"charles" wrote in message
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Kalarama wrote:
"Kimba W Lion" wrote in message
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"tim....." wrote:

I thought the video was perfectly adequate, [it's puzzling to me why you
seem to hate it] and besides, I view the digital television transition(s)
as an worldwide event.

Wonder why Sydney was the first to turn on digital tv and the last to turn
off analogue tv at the end of 2013. I certainly wouldn't care if they turned
analogue tv off tomorrow.

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?


The same way soccer = football and football = rugby league

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Its polite to at least give a description of the link you post. One cannot
be too careful these days you know.

Brian

That I did forget. Thanks.

"Kimba W Lion" wrote in message
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"Kalarama" wrote:

[it's puzzling to me why you seem to hate it]

The reception breaks up frequently; kind of ironic in this situation.

The reporter was clueless in many ways. ("Reboot" your converter box??
"PhD stuff"???)

I think it's amusing how dumb they are.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see a good signoff from American
stations. I thought Maryland Public Television did a very elegant and
relevant
signoff, but I don't have a video of it to post.

I'll look for it.

On Jun 14, 5:06*pm, "Kalarama" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snI_u...%2F%2Fvideo.go....

Broadcasters in the USA are now providing a so-called "nightlight"
service
on analogue for a limited time after switchover.
At least one analogue transmitter is left running in most service
areas,
carrying looped information films to help people connect and install
their
convertor boxes (plus, if they occur, emergency news reports and
hurricaine
warnings).

A typical example being http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6tVLO5QFvg
(this
channel was unusual in that it transitioned in Feb, but the same
practice is
happening en masse now.)

The UK broadcasters could easily have done this too, using the "to be
sold"
analogue frequency in each region, if they'd cared about vulnerable
members
of society...

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:07:04 -0700, Jamie Robert Powell opined:

if they'd cared about vulnerable members of society...

In the capitalist USofA, each household can apply for a USD 40 coupon
towards the cost of a digital converter box, and various organizations,
ranging from local fire departments to charities, are providing help to
households in setting them up.

In the Faux LaboUr pretend caring society, the vulnerable oldest members
and economically deprived members of society are being charged GBP 40
for assistance with digital conversion, when digital converter boxes are
available at the supermarket for only GBP 20.

"charles" wrote


. . . . . . the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

That is dumb, isn't it... :-/

On Jun 15, 2:43*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:07:04 -0700, jamie powell wrote:

In the Faux LaboUr pretend caring society, the vulnerable oldest members
and economically deprived members of society are being charged GBP 40
for assistance with digital conversion, when digital converter boxes are
available at the supermarket for only GBP 20.

Replace "Faux LaboUr" with "British State".
As I've said before, it makes little difference whether it's Punch or
Judy (aka Conservatives or Labour) in doll's house number 10.

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The reporter was clueless in many ways. ("Reboot" your converter box??
"PhD stuff"???)

Clearly reboot is wrong. One needs to rescan for channels (abandoning old
channel list in many).

Bill pushes the button, and NOTHING HAPPENS. How anticlimatic.

We get a full minute shot of a computer monitor that shows us NOTHING! They
obviously had another monitor on the OTA analog signal--that would have at
least made for a relevant shot when Bill pushed the button.

And if you watch the correct monitor on the back wall in the picture, you
will see the transmitter drop off on one of them shortly after the button is
pushed. Apparently the logic takes 10 - 15 seconds to actually shut down
the transmitter.

Alan

"Andy from Dover" wrote:


"tim....." wrote in message
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"Kimba W Lion" wrote in message
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"tim....." wrote:

wtf is WABC?

http://just****inggoogleit.com/
WABC is the ABC (American Broadcasting Company) affiliate in New York City.

why?

Will that tell me how it is on topic for a uk group?

tim

I can make a connection.

We've just transitioned from NTSC to ATSC in the same way the UK went from
405 line to 625 line PAL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG52HcgKaD4


Fascinating but thank god the NZBS technicians here in New Zealand
back in the late 1950s were able to persuade the politicians of the
day to go 625 B/W rather than British 405 B/W which they wanted.
There was already a 405 line system working as a test bench by a
company call Bell Television who made sets for it and later 625
sets...

On Jun 15, 7:00*am, charles wrote:

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by
The World newspaper.