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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[In other words, don't hold your breath for another U.S. broadcast TV transition to Ultra HD (or whatever) for at least 25 years, and probably more like 50. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr. E]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 14th 2008 6:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[How do stations say this is costing them money? Aren't all TV stations already mandated to be digital in the US? The shutoff is just about turning off analog transmitters.<br><br>I know over 95% of my local stations have been digital for 2 years already and the last stragglers came in a year ago.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[why not the LS2LS7?]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 14th 2008 6:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, it's still costing them money since they have two transmitters running, for the most part. That's why you're starting to (and will see more) stations who decide to pull the analog plug early and save more than a few grand in power bills. And there's still some stations who aren't passing through network HD either. Of our three network affiliates, Fox airs all their network programming in HD, the NBC only airs live network programming in HD, and the CBS has yet to air anything in HD, and the CBS says they 'might' be able to do some HD before February. (ABC here is a .2 digital subchannel from the Fox station)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TVGenius]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 14th 2008 7:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, it's still costing them money since they have two transmitters running, for the most part. That's why you're starting to (and will see more) stations who decide to pull the analog plug early and save more than a few grand in power bills. And there's still some stations who aren't passing through network HD either. Of our three network affiliates, Fox airs all their network programming in HD, the NBC only airs live network programming in HD, and the CBS has yet to air anything in HD, and the CBS says they 'might' be able to do some HD before February. (ABC here is a .2 digital subchannel from the Fox station)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TVGenius]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 14th 2008 7:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[My issue with the whining is that they've already had multiple extensions.<br><br>If they couldn't figure it out by now, then it's time to push them out of the freaking nest and they need to learn fast how to fly digital.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[J.Goodwin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 14th 2008 9:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[nicely vivid metaphor]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[phanbouy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 14th 2008 10:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[This will be a useless comment, but that's my TV in that picture. I just wanted to let you guys know.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[comineeyeaha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 15th 2008 3:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital TV cutover proving costly for everyone]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/14/digital--tv-cutover-proving-costly-for-everyone/</guid><description><![CDATA[I fully believe that this transition will be at worst beneficial to the development of new tech, because it'll cause people to realize that technology in and of itself is important to life.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ethan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2008 7:27PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>