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The Dutch Kill Analog TV Nationwide

Posted by kdawson on from the zeros-and-ones dept.

Willem de Koning writes Yesterday the Netherlands completely ended transmission of analog television signals, becoming the first country in the world to do so. So what about cars and portable TVs? I'm guessing a market will emerge for portable set top boxes / converters." The article mentions the timetable for other countries to go all-digital; by 2011 most or all of the developed world will have made the switch.

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  1. Re:Uh, huh... by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where did this whole oh-noes-I-need-a-new-TV thing come from, anyway? Not 100% sure, but I'd bet Sony had a hand in it somewhere...

  2. Re:Back in the old days by PerlDudeXL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Never The Same Color? ;)

  3. Re:It's HOLLAND by Qzukk · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I don't see what Dutch investment in the US has to do with anything in this article.

    It doesn't, he's just bragging that he personally owns the entire state you live in.

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  4. Re:It's HOLLAND by rve · · Score: 4, Funny

    my real point is- radio waves do not respect borders....

    So what?

    Ending analogue transmissions isn't intended as a punitive or repressive measure, it's meant to save a laughably small amount of money by ending a service that wasn't really used much anymore.

    All these foreign channels are available on their laughably small (analogue) cable networks, free for them to watch on their teeny tiny little TV sets in their silly little houses.

  5. Re:Uh, huh... by d2ksla · · Score: 4, Funny
    Entropy always wins.

    Chuck Norris always wins over entropy.

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