Ridding the Nation of DTV Fables

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Under any scenario conceivable there will not be a successful termination of analog services as long as there are any with a dependancy upon those signals for local news (or even entertainment). If someone is deluded enough to insist that it does happen I want the pitchfork concession Washington. Nothing riles up the public more than the loss of their TV services. The industry is repleat with stories of outages where the wrath of god decended upon the service provider until things were restored. One cable company had been testing a new channel in preparation for placing one of the music services on it. To test the video an engineer pointed a camera on a fish tank and sent the signal down that newly created channel to the subscribers. The images of fish swiming around on your television set went on for several weeks. The day the music channel replaced the fish tank caused a meltdown of the cable company's customer service department as outraged viewers demanded that they get their fish back. The 911 system goes into overload everytime a cable system breaks down. You don't mess with what people have become familiar without careful preparation, which at minimum requires a complete education of the viewer.


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