I doubt M$ will ever support this format, or else their main revenue stream would be endangered.
I expect them to embrace it in their usual way. They will provide an input filter so their software is compatible with it. (it can open it). Expect a few roadblocks on exporting to it.
Clippy, "I see you are trying to export a document. You will loose your macro's and formatting if you do. Do you wish to continue?"
If you select yes, expect everything from font selection, to headers and footers, to paragraphs, photo layout, etc., will need re-done in the other simplistic software. In short, it'll import, but editing and saving in a non-MS format will have problems. Expect MS to treat it like ANSI text.
You are thinking 'extremity' while I was thinking 'cranium' or 'chest cavity'.
Embedding doesn't work. I have a GPS. Covering the antenna with my hand kills the signal. Without reception, it would be useless as a tracking device.
Other than the technical problems, embeding the GPS is an interesting idea. Maybe a subdermal patch antenna on the top of the scalp would get enough signal if skin does not attenuate it too much.
Thanks for the DRM warning. I have dial-up at home and high speed at work. DRM simply means I can't download the book on my lunch break and take it home for later reading.
I don't have the time to read it at work. I guess the users of sneakernet are simply locked out of this work. What's the point of offering it for free if you can't read it?
The way I usually do it: Give the DVD to my son and ask him to call me when the movie starts...
I push play when I get home and then enjoy dinner with the TV off. After dinner, I turn on the TV and then hit menu. It's ready to run with no waiting. It reminds me of the days of running a movie theatre. Before the show starts, the projector needed threaded and queued up to the start frame on the leader and the lamp struck to come up to temprature. Playing a DVD now is not any different except queuing the player takes about 15 minutes lead time instead of 5 for the projector.
15 years ago when they startd they got 30 cents per album.
What is left out of the figures are the amount of my dollars going to other entertainment items instead of CD's. How much has the DVD market grown in the same 15 years. A competing technology for my dollars does not mean I spend twice and much on entertainment and have 48 hours in a day instead of 24.
I still get 24 hours a day. I spend more of my time watching videos and playing games and less time playing CD's. As a result, I buy fewer CD's. This reduction is hastened by the high cost of CD's compared to other entertainment purchases.
In a nutshell, the numbers may be right, but the conclusions drawn from the raw numbers regarding cause and effect are flawed.
Just for grins.. in the same 15 years, how much has the DVD sales and console game sales grown? How do they add up to the total growth of the pre-recorded entertainment market? I think overall, consumers are spending more than ever on pre-recorded entertainment. The music industry simply hasn't adjusted to the market shift and has lost market share to the competition.
In France all blank writable media is subject to a special tax.
In the USA they have the tax on Audio CDR's. I view the tax on an Audio CDR as a pre-paid copyright license. I sometimes do buy Audio CDR's instead of Data CDR's. Paying the tax implies the privilage the tax paid for.
Easter Eggs are intentionally hidden objects. How do these qualify as an Easter Egg?
What I found interesting was the link in the article to Burning Man. It's location and how to get there was kind of a secret except by those registered. The link provided the LAT and LON. Zooming in gives me the location of the center of Black Rock City. Viewing the surrounding area provides the road into Black Rock City.
Lots of local routes that were local secrets can now be discovered by someone other that the Government. I think it's a great equalizer.
Not true, iTunes can burn mp3 cd's without any flack. Including the legally purchased Music.
Nice, but will it permit you to simply export an unprotected MP3 so you can load it onto a USB MP3 player or add it to a Winamp playlist without burning a CD? Do you want to burn a CD with only 3 or 4 MP3's just to get the file as an MP3. It would be nice if the program simply saved unprotected MP3's so I could either user Winamp to play them or my favorite CD burning program to burn them as either an MP3 CD or Audio CD. Do you want the loss of quality to convert from the Apple format to MP3? I would rather get the files as quality MP3's, not re-compressed files from the format conversion.
no DRM simply isn't going to happen, Taking the time to convert unprotected MP3's into some other format is a waste of my time and an insult to my inteligence.
I prefer an MP3 player that attaches as a USB drive where I simply drag and drop unprotected MP3's and they play. If they want to add the feature of also playing a DRM format.. That's fine too. What do they think they are acomplishing by changing MP3's when they are put on a device. The original MP3's are still on the computer. Taking the time to ditz with each file on the way over to the portable simply slows the process and requires you to use 3rd party software to do the transfer instead of the OS'es drag and drop.
So far my MP3 player is drag, burn and play. (CD based) but it doesn't dink with the files. It also does not do DRM, so that leaves me out of the legal download market and I just stay with ripped CD's.
Someday I'll get a hard drive player that does drag and drop MP3's. I'm still watching the prices and features.
Comment: Chill out dude. I was just saying that people who don't like spam are likely to buy things online.
Thanks for the clarification. The original context tended to imply the online purchases were from SPAM e-mails. Thanks for the reply that not that many people have responded to SPAM.
Studies show that 3 in 5 people who dislike "spam" have actually bought something online.
I fit right into that catagory. I get lots of spam. I have bought something online. Is this related somehow? I dislike SPAM. I bought a game. The SPAM and the game purchase are unrelated. I have bought nothing from any e-mail I have ever received.
I did a search to see who had the best deal on the game I wanted. I did not search my e-mail account for the information.
Please reveal the source of your studies and provide some information how spam and online purchases are related. Is there a relationship to the number of people who dislike SPAM and have bought something from a SPAM e-mail?
A very simple way to stop spam would be to charge someone a small amount of money for example a penny for every email that is sent. That amount will go to the person who is receiving the email. Thus for every email that you send you need to pay a penny and for every email you receive you get a penny. Thus the total cost of sending an email will be zero if whoever you wrote to writes back to you. This will even out the cost of sending and receiving emails. The only person who this would hurt is the spammers who send out millions of emails to total strangers who most often just delete the junk that they receive. So this solution is good for people who use emails for legitimate reasons. Heck this way spammers can send me all the emails that they want, I will just be making money off of them.
It's a great idea until the e-mail is paid for by your stolen identity and banking information. These are criminals who don't give out their own iformation. They use someone else's identity to avoid lawsuits. Deflecting the mob to someone else is standard pratice.
Now, you could put outbound filtering on port 25, and require everyone to send mail through the ISP's servers (with authenticated SMTP of some sort), though there will be some legitimate traffic surpressed if that happens...
The botnet is used to send just a few e-mails from each bot. Get an unfiltered inbox. Check the multiple copies of SPAM you get from diffrent senders. Check the headers. Identical SPAM arriving from many domains typicaly hit my inbox within a half hour of each other. This is the teltale sign of a botnet sending SPAM.
Clippy "It looks like you are trying to send a lot of e-mail. Would you like to send the first one to 1lol56@aol.com?"
Clippy "It looks like your return address is incorrect. Would you like me to fix it?
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That someone is unhappy with the amount of advertising, yet still watches, tells them that they are advertising the right amount.
No it isn't. The free TV was a temporary side trip from the already established alternative. The studio did nothing right to keep him watching. It may be a long time before he returns.
Unless you actually stop watching, it won't change.
Have you driven through your neighborhood lately? Have you counted the houses with TV antennas? Have you seen the market share stastics for the local television markets?
It is changing. Over the air TV is just waiting for the funeral. It just doesn't know it's dead yet.
From 5000-10000 people a day who will roll through your help files, 50-100 will actually need a place to host their content as well, and 5-10 will think "Oh, the guy who made these great instructions provides some decent webhosting space! How convenient".
Good advice. It's how I found my ink supplier. I was searching Forums on how to refill and reset the chip's estimated ink level. I found my answers and a source of ink. As an added bonus they had about the best prices. I'm on my 3rd order.
I really wish there were a way to just have my ad pop up for people who actually are interested in what I have to offer. Then I can leave everyone else the hell alone.
Glad you asked. I always tell them... Yellow Pages and Google! Be there when I'm looking for your product. If all marketers followed this simple advice, I wouldn't be bombarded with all the unwanted advertising. If I want a Pizza, be sure your special is advertised in the Yellow Pages or Google. I'll find it. I'm not in the market for online casino's or a pharmacy. If you have the best price in town for Viagra, put it in the Yellow Pages or Google. Don't fill my inbox and browser with the advertisements I'm not looking for.
End rant.. Did I mention to put your ad in the Yellow Pages and on Google?
That's completely untrue. The 42:30 content window has been carved in stone ever since the 1960s.
I was born in the 1950's and grew up in the 1960s and 1970's. I watched the erosion of program time. I watched the replacement of entire shows with infomercials. I watched the increase of re-runs. I watched shows being replaced by least common denominator mindless junk (sex and violence). I watched Sitcom's degrade from good clean fun to PG-13 rated material. I guess on the plus side, studios no longer go off the air after the 11:00 news or The Tonight Show.
I remember getting up early on Saturdays to watch the cartoons. Saturday morning now has nothing for my kids to get up to watch. (a few months ago I checked the saturday morning line-up. Yuck.) Videogames and Internet have replaced TV. Nobody wastes time watching over the air TV anymore. It simply does not compete in this new age of media competition.
You seem to be bemoaning the fact that, despite that digital television is everywhere and equipment is widely available,
I must live in the urban back country. I have a VCR. I haven't found any VCR's or PVR's with a digital TV tuner. I do find lots of NTSC sets. I have sevral small TV's. I have not found replacement TV's that have the tuner built-in. I have seen some monitors, and a couple receivers in the high end and I have seen some set top tuners that cost more than all 3 of my televisions combined. What I have not found at any price is a small digital television. Does anybody have a small (under 25 inch) television that can receive off the air US Digital TV signals? A Digital ready monitor connected to the cable box or satelite box does not count. To count, it needs to pick up off the air local Digital TV signals.
Please telll me about what cities in the US have these small receivers on the shelf ready to buy. Home theatre sets need not apply.
You say that nobody is buying digital televisions, but ignore the fact that they are in fact selling like hotcakes.
Are you talking about receivers for over the air broadcast or are you talking about digital ready monitors without a tuner combined with a cable box or satelite box? It is true and I agree that HDTV on cable or satelite is selling like hotcakes. Digital TV receivers (with digital TV tuner) on the other hand are not.
Personally, I don't know anybody who still watches analog television.
Now you have finaly reached my point that you didn't get. Analog over the air is being replaced by Digital. Almost nobody watches over the air analog. Even fewer are watching over the air Digital. Therefore nobody is making and selling digital TV's to replace the analog sets. That's my point. When I retire and hit the road in an RV, there will not be any way to watch the local 6:00 news. I won't have a receiver. Wardriving will replace TV.
Are you just rambling incoherently here, or what?
To someone who subscribes to pay TV, it may appear that way.
According to the latest report from the FCC, something like 97% of American homes receive all four major broadcast networks in HD already,
This is done without using a digital television receiver. It uses the cable box and a HDTV monitor. Same thing with Satelite TV.
There is a lack of Digital TV's that pick up the local channels over the air. How many of the 97% have an integrated digital TV tuner? If the subscription is shut off, do any of them have the means to watch TV (Digital, not NTSC) off the air from the local network?
In only 2 years digital TV vcr's are to be on the market. (TV recording devices are to include a digital TV tuner). Seen any prototypes or early adopters? The deadline is well on the way, but the stuff with a tuner isn't. There are lots of monitors and Cable or Satelite HDTV TIVO type boxes, but just about nothing for a non-pay-tv subscriber.
something like 97% of American homes receive all four major broadcast networks in HD already,
Either I live in the wrong town, or the stastistic is wrong. Maybe they mean the signal is on the air and 97% could be able to receive it if they bought receiving equipment.
All the networks in my area do broadcast in digital, but I don't know any of my neighbors that have anything able to receive it off the free airwaves.
HDTV is nice, but that is NOT what the FCC is mandating. They mandate Digital television which may include HDTV. Digital TV includes a normal resolution format that is NOT HDTV. The broadcaster can put 4 channels of programme on the single channel bandwidth allotment instead of 1 channel of HDTV.
Digital television is already here. I don't know where this "if the FCC wants us to have it" stuff is coming from.
Analog over the air TV is going away. When it does, those without cable or other subscription TV service is then supposed to be able to watch over the air digital TV instead.
Can you receive over the air digital TV from your local station?
Odds are your answer is NO. Almost nobody has a receiver for over the air Digital TV.
That's why in my first post I mentioned the lack of quality programming on over the air broadcasting. Nobody is buying Digital televisions to watch the local stations. The first season of Battlestar Galatica was broadcast over the local over the air networks. If it were broadcast on the local stations, then I may have a show worth tuning into. I like many others don't even bother with the local TV guide. I already know there isn't much on and it's overloaded with commercials. There used to be close to 50 minutes of program in an hour. Not anymore.
Internet has replaced TV time for me. I watch TV if there is something on in the news and I find out about it on the radio or Internet first. (9-11 attack for example) In the future, I won't be able to watch TV simply because I won't have one unless something is done to make sets affordable.
The absolute cheapest set I have found so far that includes a tuner (a real digital TV receiver) is still over $500. 20 inch analog TV's go for under $200.
I stand corrected or Fry's has screwed up again. They list a 20 inch digital television receiver for under $200. It's the SHARP 20F640D and it's listed on www.outpost.com under digital televisions. Anybody want to take bets it won't pick up the local station's digital TV broadcast?
Does anybody know for sure if it's really a Digital TV receiver? A hang on a UHF antenna and turn it on type digital TV? If so, I may have found one.
So yeah. I'd say they're the best in the world. Not that there's much pride to derive from that... Just like the Nigerians are quite proficient at e-mail scams...
I don't know anybody in the.ru domain, that's why it's blocked at my router. It's a filter with zero false positives.
My block list is beginning to look more like a white list.
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I doubt M$ will ever support this format, or else their main revenue stream would be endangered.
I expect them to embrace it in their usual way. They will provide an input filter so their software is compatible with it. (it can open it).
Expect a few roadblocks on exporting to it.
Clippy, "I see you are trying to export a document. You will loose your macro's and formatting if you do. Do you wish to continue?"
If you select yes, expect everything from font selection, to headers and footers, to paragraphs, photo layout, etc., will need re-done in the other simplistic software. In short, it'll import, but editing and saving in a non-MS format will have problems. Expect MS to treat it like ANSI text.
You are thinking 'extremity' while I was thinking 'cranium' or 'chest cavity'.
Embedding doesn't work. I have a GPS. Covering the antenna with my hand kills the signal. Without reception, it would be useless as a tracking device.
Other than the technical problems, embeding the GPS is an interesting idea. Maybe a subdermal patch antenna on the top of the scalp would get enough signal if skin does not attenuate it too much.
I see a new market for tinfoil hats.
Thanks for the DRM warning. I have dial-up at home and high speed at work. DRM simply means I can't download the book on my lunch break and take it home for later reading.
I don't have the time to read it at work. I guess the users of sneakernet are simply locked out of this work. What's the point of offering it for free if you can't read it?
I buy MUSIC CDR's. I put my downloads on them. They charded a royalty for the CD. The royalty has been paid at the price they set. So sue me.
In other news, I used a pre-paid phone card. I don't expect to get sued using it either.
The way I usually do it: Give the DVD to my son and ask him to call me when the movie starts...
I push play when I get home and then enjoy dinner with the TV off. After dinner, I turn on the TV and then hit menu. It's ready to run with no waiting. It reminds me of the days of running a movie theatre. Before the show starts, the projector needed threaded and queued up to the start frame on the leader and the lamp struck to come up to temprature. Playing a DVD now is not any different except queuing the player takes about 15 minutes lead time instead of 5 for the projector.
15 years ago when they startd they got 30 cents per album.
What is left out of the figures are the amount of my dollars going to other entertainment items instead of CD's. How much has the DVD market grown in the same 15 years. A competing technology for my dollars does not mean I spend twice and much on entertainment and have 48 hours in a day instead of 24.
I still get 24 hours a day. I spend more of my time watching videos and playing games and less time playing CD's. As a result, I buy fewer CD's. This reduction is hastened by the high cost of CD's compared to other entertainment purchases.
In a nutshell, the numbers may be right, but the conclusions drawn from the raw numbers regarding cause and effect are flawed.
Just for grins.. in the same 15 years, how much has the DVD sales and console game sales grown? How do they add up to the total growth of the pre-recorded entertainment market? I think overall, consumers are spending more than ever on pre-recorded entertainment. The music industry simply hasn't adjusted to the market shift and has lost market share to the competition.
In France all blank writable media is subject to a special tax.
In the USA they have the tax on Audio CDR's. I view the tax on an Audio CDR as a pre-paid copyright license. I sometimes do buy Audio CDR's instead of Data CDR's. Paying the tax implies the privilage the tax paid for.
It amazes me that there are still people who are gullible enough to believe we actually went to the moon.
It's the same people who measure the distance variations between the earth and moon by hitting the laser targets left on the moon.
They did leave the reflectors behind.
Easter Eggs are intentionally hidden objects. How do these qualify as an Easter Egg?
What I found interesting was the link in the article to Burning Man. It's location and how to get there was kind of a secret except by those registered. The link provided the LAT and LON. Zooming in gives me the location of the center of Black Rock City. Viewing the surrounding area provides the road into Black Rock City.
Lots of local routes that were local secrets can now be discovered by someone other that the Government. I think it's a great equalizer.
Not true, iTunes can burn mp3 cd's without any flack. Including the legally purchased Music.
Nice, but will it permit you to simply export an unprotected MP3 so you can load it onto a USB MP3 player or add it to a Winamp playlist without burning a CD? Do you want to burn a CD with only 3 or 4 MP3's just to get the file as an MP3. It would be nice if the program simply saved unprotected MP3's so I could either user Winamp to play them or my favorite CD burning program to burn them as either an MP3 CD or Audio CD. Do you want the loss of quality to convert from the Apple format to MP3? I would rather get the files as quality MP3's, not re-compressed files from the format conversion.
no DRM simply isn't going to happen, Taking the time to convert unprotected MP3's into some other format is a waste of my time and an insult to my inteligence.
I prefer an MP3 player that attaches as a USB drive where I simply drag and drop unprotected MP3's and they play. If they want to add the feature of also playing a DRM format.. That's fine too. What do they think they are acomplishing by changing MP3's when they are put on a device. The original MP3's are still on the computer. Taking the time to ditz with each file on the way over to the portable simply slows the process and requires you to use 3rd party software to do the transfer instead of the OS'es drag and drop.
So far my MP3 player is drag, burn and play. (CD based) but it doesn't dink with the files. It also does not do DRM, so that leaves me out of the legal download market and I just stay with ripped CD's.
Someday I'll get a hard drive player that does drag and drop MP3's. I'm still watching the prices and features.
Here's one I'd like to see taken out of business:
Is he a spammer, or someone you don't like and want to joe job? You were not specific in your post.
Comment: Chill out dude. I was just saying that people who don't like spam are likely to buy things online.
Thanks for the clarification. The original context tended to imply the online purchases were from SPAM e-mails. Thanks for the reply that not that many people have responded to SPAM.
I shouldn't feed the troll, but....
Studies show that 3 in 5 people who dislike "spam" have actually bought something online.
I fit right into that catagory. I get lots of spam. I have bought something online. Is this related somehow? I dislike SPAM. I bought a game. The SPAM and the game purchase are unrelated. I have bought nothing from any e-mail I have ever received.
I did a search to see who had the best deal on the game I wanted. I did not search my e-mail account for the information.
Please reveal the source of your studies and provide some information how spam and online purchases are related. Is there a relationship to the number of people who dislike SPAM and have bought something from a SPAM e-mail?
A very simple way to stop spam would be to charge someone a small amount of money for example a penny for every email that is sent. That amount will go to the person who is receiving the email. Thus for every email that you send you need to pay a penny and for every email you receive you get a penny. Thus the total cost of sending an email will be zero if whoever you wrote to writes back to you. This will even out the cost of sending and receiving emails. The only person who this would hurt is the spammers who send out millions of emails to total strangers who most often just delete the junk that they receive. So this solution is good for people who use emails for legitimate reasons. Heck this way spammers can send me all the emails that they want, I will just be making money off of them.
It's a great idea until the e-mail is paid for by your stolen identity and banking information.
These are criminals who don't give out their own iformation. They use someone else's identity to avoid lawsuits. Deflecting the mob to someone else is standard pratice.
a couple of dead spammers and the problem will be radically reduced.
And a couple dead Joe Job'ed anti-spammers would get law enforcement heavly involved.
People don't send spam from their ISP's account.
Very true. They use a botnet.
They send it straight through their computer.
Not they don't. It's the easy to be on a RBL.
Now, you could put outbound filtering on port 25, and require everyone to send mail through the ISP's servers (with authenticated SMTP of some sort), though there will be some legitimate traffic surpressed if that happens...
The botnet is used to send just a few e-mails from each bot. Get an unfiltered inbox. Check the multiple copies of SPAM you get from diffrent senders. Check the headers. Identical SPAM arriving from many domains typicaly hit my inbox within a half hour of each other. This is the teltale sign of a botnet sending SPAM.
or the more refined Clippy approach?
Clippy "It looks like you are trying to send a lot of e-mail. Would you like to send the first one to 1lol56@aol.com?"
Clippy "It looks like your return address is incorrect. Would you like me to fix it?
That someone is unhappy with the amount of advertising, yet still watches, tells them that they are advertising the right amount.
No it isn't. The free TV was a temporary side trip from the already established alternative. The studio did nothing right to keep him watching. It may be a long time before he returns.
Unless you actually stop watching, it won't change.
Have you driven through your neighborhood lately? Have you counted the houses with TV antennas? Have you seen the market share stastics for the local television markets?
It is changing. Over the air TV is just waiting for the funeral. It just doesn't know it's dead yet.
From 5000-10000 people a day who will roll through your help files, 50-100 will actually need a place to host their content as well, and 5-10 will think "Oh, the guy who made these great instructions provides some decent webhosting space! How convenient".
Good advice. It's how I found my ink supplier. I was searching Forums on how to refill and reset the chip's estimated ink level. I found my answers and a source of ink. As an added bonus they had about the best prices. I'm on my 3rd order.
I really wish there were a way to just have my ad pop up for people who actually are interested in what I have to offer. Then I can leave everyone else the hell alone.
Glad you asked. I always tell them... Yellow Pages and Google! Be there when I'm looking for your product. If all marketers followed this simple advice, I wouldn't be bombarded with all the unwanted advertising. If I want a Pizza, be sure your special is advertised in the Yellow Pages or Google. I'll find it. I'm not in the market for online casino's or a pharmacy. If you have the best price in town for Viagra, put it in the Yellow Pages or Google. Don't fill my inbox and browser with the advertisements I'm not looking for.
End rant.. Did I mention to put your ad in the Yellow Pages and on Google?
That's completely untrue. The 42:30 content window has been carved in stone ever since the 1960s.
I was born in the 1950's and grew up in the 1960s and 1970's. I watched the erosion of program time. I watched the replacement of entire shows with infomercials. I watched the increase of re-runs. I watched shows being replaced by least common denominator mindless junk (sex and violence). I watched Sitcom's degrade from good clean fun to PG-13 rated material. I guess on the plus side, studios no longer go off the air after the 11:00 news or The Tonight Show.
I remember getting up early on Saturdays to watch the cartoons. Saturday morning now has nothing for my kids to get up to watch. (a few months ago I checked the saturday morning line-up. Yuck.) Videogames and Internet have replaced TV. Nobody wastes time watching over the air TV anymore. It simply does not compete in this new age of media competition.
You seem to be bemoaning the fact that, despite that digital television is everywhere and equipment is widely available,
I must live in the urban back country. I have a VCR. I haven't found any VCR's or PVR's with a digital TV tuner. I do find lots of NTSC sets. I have sevral small TV's. I have not found replacement TV's that have the tuner built-in. I have seen some monitors, and a couple receivers in the high end and I have seen some set top tuners that cost more than all 3 of my televisions combined. What I have not found at any price is a small digital television. Does anybody have a small (under 25 inch) television that can receive off the air US Digital TV signals? A Digital ready monitor connected to the cable box or satelite box does not count. To count, it needs to pick up off the air local Digital TV signals.
Please telll me about what cities in the US have these small receivers on the shelf ready to buy. Home theatre sets need not apply.
You say that nobody is buying digital televisions, but ignore the fact that they are in fact selling like hotcakes.
Are you talking about receivers for over the air broadcast or are you talking about digital ready monitors without a tuner combined with a cable box or satelite box? It is true and I agree that HDTV on cable or satelite is selling like hotcakes. Digital TV receivers (with digital TV tuner) on the other hand are not.
Personally, I don't know anybody who still watches analog television.
Now you have finaly reached my point that you didn't get. Analog over the air is being replaced by Digital. Almost nobody watches over the air analog. Even fewer are watching over the air Digital. Therefore nobody is making and selling digital TV's to replace the analog sets. That's my point. When I retire and hit the road in an RV, there will not be any way to watch the local 6:00 news. I won't have a receiver. Wardriving will replace TV.
Are you just rambling incoherently here, or what?
To someone who subscribes to pay TV, it may appear that way.
According to the latest report from the FCC, something like 97% of American homes receive all four major broadcast networks in HD already,
This is done without using a digital television receiver. It uses the cable box and a HDTV monitor. Same thing with Satelite TV.
There is a lack of Digital TV's that pick up the local channels over the air. How many of the 97% have an integrated digital TV tuner? If the subscription is shut off, do any of them have the means to watch TV (Digital, not NTSC) off the air from the local network?
In only 2 years digital TV vcr's are to be on the market. (TV recording devices are to include a digital TV tuner). Seen any prototypes or early adopters? The deadline is well on the way, but the stuff with a tuner isn't. There are lots of monitors and Cable or Satelite HDTV TIVO type boxes, but just about nothing for a non-pay-tv subscriber.
something like 97% of American homes receive all four major broadcast networks in HD already,
Either I live in the wrong town, or the stastistic is wrong. Maybe they mean the signal is on the air and 97% could be able to receive it if they bought receiving equipment.
All the networks in my area do broadcast in digital, but I don't know any of my neighbors that have anything able to receive it off the free airwaves.
HDTV is nice, but that is NOT what the FCC is mandating. They mandate Digital television which may include HDTV. Digital TV includes a normal resolution format that is NOT HDTV. The broadcaster can put 4 channels of programme on the single channel bandwidth allotment instead of 1 channel of HDTV.
Digital television is already here. I don't know where this "if the FCC wants us to have it" stuff is coming from.
Analog over the air TV is going away. When it does, those without cable or other subscription TV service is then supposed to be able to watch over the air digital TV instead.
Can you receive over the air digital TV from your local station?
Odds are your answer is NO. Almost nobody has a receiver for over the air Digital TV.
That's why in my first post I mentioned the lack of quality programming on over the air broadcasting. Nobody is buying Digital televisions to watch the local stations. The first season of Battlestar Galatica was broadcast over the local over the air networks. If it were broadcast on the local stations, then I may have a show worth tuning into. I like many others don't even bother with the local TV guide. I already know there isn't much on and it's overloaded with commercials.
There used to be close to 50 minutes of program in an hour. Not anymore.
Internet has replaced TV time for me. I watch TV if there is something on in the news and I find out about it on the radio or Internet first. (9-11 attack for example) In the future, I won't be able to watch TV simply because I won't have one unless something is done to make sets affordable.
The absolute cheapest set I have found so far that includes a tuner (a real digital TV receiver) is still over $500. 20 inch analog TV's go for under $200.
I stand corrected or Fry's has screwed up again. They list a 20 inch digital television receiver for under $200. It's the SHARP 20F640D and it's listed on www.outpost.com under digital televisions. Anybody want to take bets it won't pick up the local station's digital TV broadcast?
Does anybody know for sure if it's really a Digital TV receiver? A hang on a UHF antenna and turn it on type digital TV? If so, I may have found one.
So yeah. I'd say they're the best in the world. Not that there's much pride to derive from that... Just like the Nigerians are quite proficient at e-mail scams...
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My block list is beginning to look more like a white list.