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Have sattlelite, don't worry you're fine.

Get your TV through the net, you're fine.

Still have rabbit ears and only watch 3,5,8, PBS, and your two or three local stations, well you'll need a converter box.

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Also set it up ahead of time, because you probably need a new aerial, or you may have a duff converter, and need to exchange it. Plus why would you not want to have digital TV if you have the converter already.]]>Feb 17th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
Don't let them sit for a year, buy them and use it now. OTA Digital signals rival (if not better) digital cable signals.]]>Feb 17th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/No, wait...]]>Feb 17th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 17th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
I wont wait for the switch once i get the box i am hocking it UP!

Mitchell]]>Feb 17th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Oh, and we're socialists, those politics your hilly billys usually refer to as communistic governs our country (well, did when they shut it off).

Does it hurt? Does it burn? I hope so!



*giggles*]]>Feb 17th 2008 4:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
**giggles**]]>Feb 17th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 17th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
I remember the FCC making a ruling that cable must carry at least the analog broadcast channels (NBC, CBS, Fox, etc) until 2012]]>Feb 17th 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
Don't count on that NTSC tuner being useful for much after three years, methinks.]]>Feb 17th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 17th 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
Shut 480 off instead.]]>Feb 17th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 17th 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
* By July 1, 2005 all televisions with screen sizes over 36" must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
* By March 1, 2006 all televisions with screen sizes over 25" must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
* By March 1, 2007 all televisions regardless of screen size, and all interface devices which include a tuner (VCR, DVD player/recorder, DVR) must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner.

]]>Feb 17th 2008 7:14PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/1) Is there a simple way to tell if your TV has an ATSC tuner? (I mean without looking on the box)

2) Just to make sure, you will only be affected by the switch if you receive free TV through an antennae, right?

3) Does this mean that my 360 game cases will start saying ATSC as opposed to NTSC after the switch?]]>Feb 17th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
2) More or less

3) No, NTSC is a video format (much like PAL, SECAM) and is still used for SD material (I.e. DVD's).
More education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC#Variants_of_NTSC]]>Feb 17th 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 17th 2008 7:52PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 17th 2008 8:17PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 17th 2008 11:47PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
What Time Warner (or any cable provider) decides to do with their analog channels is not part of the digital transition mandate. However, the FCC ordered cable companies to keep analog channels until 2012.]]>Feb 17th 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 18th 2008 12:02AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Will all of the analog channels I currently watch be available with one of these converter boxes (like Comedy Central)? Or will I have to pay the cable company for one of theirs? (I'm talking about basic cable channels beyond the network channels, like Comedy Central, ESPN, etc.)

Right now my cable company encrypts the digital broadcasts of basic cable channels, will that change?
If not, then these boxes are pretty much useless to me, and Comcast will be able to suck more money from me.]]>Feb 18th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Feb 27th 2008 1:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/May 9th 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 10th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
And nobody talks about upgrading the antenna! These boxes only take RF input! Our UHF is still on the old whatchimacalit-prongs, so we're going to lose our UHF stations completely if we don't rewire our antenna. (And we probably watch more UHF than VHF).]]>Mar 28th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
Who do we vote for? They're all the same!]]>Mar 28th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Broadcasting TV takes up a lot airwaves,almost as much as everything else put together.Opening these airwaves up will help everything from your computer to the paramedic saving your life. ]]>Mar 28th 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Get the coupon and buy the box.
Avarage price of box $60-$70.]]>Mar 28th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 7:07PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Mar 28th 2008 7:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/
Those of us who live in hurricane land (South Florida) where hurricanes and storms inevitably knock out cable, satelites, etc., have all at one point or another, gone out and purchased walkman tvs, little black & white 5-inchers, hand helds, boom box type tvs just so we can stayed connected to the outside world. Have had to go many days in a row with that being the only tv viewing anyone could get..Any chance of the converters working on those? Thx Lisa]]>Mar 29th 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/17/t-minus-one-year-till-the-us-analog-shutoff-are-you-ready/Apr 13th 2008 7:51PM