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Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-box-you-fools dept.

djupedal writes "'Even if all goes smoothly, next February's digital television shift is likely to generate hundreds of thousands of complaints from television viewers around the country. A major problem during a test run in Wilmington, N.C., was the inability of over-the-air viewers to receive new digital signals, according to figures collected after the test.'"

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  1. Hmmmm by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there is anything that is likely to end the world, it might be when all the country folk lose their TV just long enough for their addiction to take over and........

    I personally will be sitting outside Best Buy to watch the festivities begin in Feb.

    1. Re:Hmmmm by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Funny

      I personally will be sitting outside Best Buy to watch the festivities begin in Feb.

      See that is what is wrong with America. No entrepreneurial ambition. I'll be outside BestBuy next to you, selling pitchforks and torches.

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    2. Re:Hmmmm by ivandavidoff · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some of us still remember the Great 8-Track Riots of '78. It wasn't pretty.

    3. Re:Hmmmm by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Some of us still remember the Great 8-Track Riots of '78. It wasn't pretty."

      That's nothing compared to the 78 Riots in 33.

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  2. Mmhmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A major problem during a test run in Wilmington, N.C., was the inability of over-the-air viewers to receive new digital signals

    Yeah, that is kind of a major problem.

  3. Surge in coat hanger sales by jbeaupre · · Score: 5, Funny

    Prediction 1: Sales of coat hangers will soar as people build their own antennas http://uhfhdtvantenna.blogspot.com/

    Prediction 2: Sales of coat hangers will see a second spike as people realize they needed metal coat hangers.

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