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Thread ID: 119222	2011-07-11 22:21:00	Digital next year.	Cicero (40)	PC World Chat

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1216180	2011-07-12 10:10:00	Well it wont be Sky I keep getting phone calls from Sky. I keep hanging up on them.	Bobh (5192)
1216181	2011-07-12 10:15:00	what eats me is that shops are still selling TV's with analogue tuners in them, and not freeview. One would think the government would have set a deadline for these old sets to be stopped being sold. How many people that aren't quite up to the technology will be suckered into buying a non digital set because it has HD splashed across it.	plod (107)
1216182	2011-07-12 11:41:00	Neither of which have anything to do with the thickness of the case! The type of backlighting is a big factor in how deep the casing has to be. LED backlighting allows for a far thinner case.	wratterus (105)
1216183	2011-07-12 13:09:00	what eats me is that shops are still selling TV's with analogue tuners in them, and not freeview. One would think the government would have set a deadline for these old sets to be stopped being sold. How many people that aren't quite up to the technology will be suckered into buying a non digital set because it has HD splashed across it. What do you mean by that? A TV is either HD or it isn't. It has nothing to do with having an integrated Freeview/whatever receiver/set top boxer...	Cato (6936)
1216184	2011-07-12 13:45:00	Its either HD ready or full HD. Both can have freeview	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1216185	2011-07-12 15:30:00	We had this changeover in the US a few years ago . At first, the government gave us each two vouchers for free digital-to-analog converters/decoders for every family . That was all well and good, but then many of the newly digitized stations stopped putting out local broadcasts (or radically cut power) and went to a strictly pay-to-view situation, and of course you couldn't be sticking money into the decoder box, so you either went to cable, satellite or FIOS via your phone service . FYI: Verizon offers FIOS with 80 gazillion bits internet speed, the full spectrum of National and International TV and your new 10-line basic digital phone service for a package cost of a gazillion dollars a month - for the first year and then the price goes up to 'normal' and has yearly price 'bumps' (read: increases) from there . Those that cut power were no longer viewable from the places that got a strong signal in the past . For me in Hemet, the LA stations were all now out of reach, and San Diego was too far and too many hills away too . We were in the midst of the changeover to digital from the old analog when we moved and just bought new LED flatties and can also send the same signal to an older analog TV, although in letterbox configuration with those black bands top and bottom of the screen . With Google MAYBE pulling back it's offer to buy HULU and a lot of the stuff that's moving around now from one format or platform to possibly another system and WIFI not being as available all over the US as was promised, I'll wait for things to shake out for a while until I see where things are trending . We get over 300 TV Digital channels, and non are adult porn although there is that option for an extra fee . A lot are BBC and Chinese/Mandarin although they are minor to the English-language stations . We have another 75-80 or so of PPV (Pay-Per-View) first run movies, and I don't ever buy them as I like a theater experience better for something like that . For the PPV system, the satellite box needs a phone tap so it can run your debit card to pay, which I don't want to do anyway - but it's available if I should want it . Youse guys are just entering into the grinder now as the systems are switching over . :waughh: Strangely . the US changeover was for opening up the wasteful broad frequencies of the old analog system for emergency and fire digital radio services so they could use them for better data propagation . Is your police- and fire-communication system that demanding that they need to usurp the analog frequencies too? I mean, how may sheep self-immolate and require the fire department - on a daily basis?	SurferJoe46 (51)
1216186	2011-07-12 19:06:00	Its either HD ready or full HD. Both can have freeview I was referring to him saying that HD TVs without integrated Freeview receiver should be banned by the government. Obviously, you can have Freeview on pretty much any TV you can imagine...	Cato (6936)
1216187	2011-07-12 19:07:00	Strangely . the US changeover was for opening up the wasteful broad frequencies of the old analog system for emergency and fire digital radio services so they could use them for better data propagation . Is your police- and fire-communication system that demanding that they need to usurp the analog frequencies too? The primary reason to kill off analogue TV broadcasts is to free up the spectrum for 4G wireless .	Cato (6936)
1216188	2011-07-12 20:15:00	The type of backlighting is a big factor in how deep the casing has to be. LED backlighting allows for a far thinner case. Are you saying I am wrong again? This can't be so, I am never wrong, or at least that's what the memsahib says.;)	Cicero (40)
1216189	2011-07-13 13:03:00	Is your police- and fire-communication system that demanding that they need to usurp the analog frequencies too? I mean, how may sheep self-immolate and require the fire department - on a daily basis? Not as far as I'm aware. In-car computers are starting to pop up in some police cars in Auckland, and the police have mostly switched over to digitally-encrypted P.25 radios (made by Tait) although they are keeping analog radios and repeaters as emergency standby, but Fire and Ambo are mostly analog voice dispatch, with just a sprinkling of digital services for Ambos (not encrypted though) and some ooooold spec pagers for rural fires (again, unencrypted). What the free spectrum will be ultimately used for here, I'm not sure. Hopefully it's proper 4G cellular (not the bogus 4G that's served in the states), maybe... one can only but dream :rolleyes:	ubergeek85 (131)
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