Hawaii activates DTV transition early: it's for the birds

by Darren Murph posted Jan 17th 2009 at 5:02PM

We'd say there's just a month left before most of the USA switches off its analog signals in favor of digital, but given the whole voucher fiasco, that may end up being inaccurate. Whatever the case, the wonderful state of Hawaii has decided to get a jump on everyone else by going digital this past week. The reason? Broadcasters and park rangers wanted to ensure that analog transmission towers on the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano (pictured) were down before the nesting season of the dark-rumped petrel. As expected, hundreds of calls have been pouring in from unprepared residents, but it seems that officials are taking it all in stride and helping frustrated viewers get the converter boxes they need. For the birds, it's all worth it.

Filed under: Industry, Regulatory

Tags: digital tv, digital tv transition, DigitalTv, DigitalTvTransition, dtv, dtv transition, DtvTransition, hawaii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Peter F @ Jan 17th 2009 5:27PM

Anyone else find this extremely humorous since Obama is from Hawaii?

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BradJ @ Jan 17th 2009 6:33PM

No.

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Mike @ Jan 17th 2009 6:43PM

Yep..too funny.

Though they should have left the towers there in case of emergency.

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Thunderdome @ Jan 17th 2009 7:18PM

There's a lady at my work who doesn't drive. She doesn't read the paper. She doesn't have cable TV. She used to live in a small Alaskan town and is basically a very nice older lady, but she lives under a rock.

Last week she took the bus to Best Buy and got a god damn converter box. If she can be prepared...

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ander @ Jan 18th 2009 3:26AM

birds in hawaii like "aw hell, they done bulldozed our time share"

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Montusama @ Jan 18th 2009 10:35PM

Well.....honestly

birds > analog TV

It's just amazing how some people don't understand this year, my mom for example thinks the government is some ways is taking TV away from her. (It's sorta true)

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