Re: [IRCA] Dump AM IBOC, Move the AM Band, re:HDTV comment

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Martin wrote:
> Russ,
> 
> You can buy a digital converter. Like out here there is no HDTV and
> unless the translators go HDTV, we will not have it. I have Dish and I
> could buy an HD TV Set, HD receiver and pay more for HD programming, but
> why bother? I don't watch the network fare much anyway, except news. It
> is too expensive for what I would get out of it. I am into old TV shows
> and those are not in HD much as yet either. Digital is on the horizon
> OTA (over the air), but not HD, at least not out here. I do have digital
> already with my Dish system and even the Big Dish with 4DTV, Mpeg. Plus
> with over 2,000 channels off the birds, I get HD is something I really
> don't need. At least now. 

Your translators will go digital, if not by 2009 then not long after. 
The TV stations in Utah, which is the TV translator capital of America 
(something like 600 licensed translators in the state!), are already 
quite far down that road. Portland is a fairly translator-dependent 
market, too, since its stations reach from your area on the coast inland 
almost to the Idaho border. I'm sure the stations there are watching 
Utah very closely to see how to feed a long chain of translators with 
digital.

Once they do, HD will ride along as part of the digital signal. And 
while it may not happen next year or the year after, the time will come 
when you won't be able to get a TV of any significant size (say, 15" or 
bigger) that's not HD, any more than you can buy a 19" set now that's 
not color.

And, frankly, Patrick, as a guy with hundreds of Betamax tapes lining 
his living room wall, you're probably not the poster child for the 
technological cutting edge :-)

(Sorry you let us all into your house during the convention yet?)

s

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