[SBE] Ready to turn analog back on?

[McGlothen, Darryl]

One of my pet peeves is a television commercial that states "antenna
tv's will cease to function on Feb. 17th, 2009." The majority of
television sets have antenna inputs whether they are 'digital' or
'analog' and they will continue to operate as they were designed. Only
those analog sets that do not have a digital converter box (STB) will be
unable to pass OTA signals broadcast only in digital. This will not
impact LPTV broadcasters in spite of the hype and scare tactics
promulgated by cable broadcasters and ill-informed but well intentioned
TV broadcasters. Analog TV sets will continue to receive and display
analog LPTV signals without problem...analog TV sets with digital tuners
or STB's will continue to display OTA signals until they die of old age.

There is no need to 'modify STB's' to accept analog RF inputs when a
simple antenna switch will allow both LPTV analog and converted digital
STB's to be routed to the antenna input of any analog TV set. There is
no functionality, however, to upconvert LPTV analog signals to digital
receivers and therein lies the only potential loss to LPTV broadcasters.
Proper (and accurate) education of broadcasters, re-broadcasters and
viewers will eliminate the dirth of confusion spawned by unscrupulous
cable advertisers.

Darryl

-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of
George Gonos, Leader
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:01 PM
To: 'sbe member discussion mail list'
Subject: Re: [SBE] Ready to turn analog back on?

I saw an article in TV Technology about a month ago and the LPTV guys
are up in arms.  There is a petition out there proposing to modify the
design of the government sponsored set-top box to allow for "analog TV"
RF inputs in order to service the LPTV application.

Given the first version of the box is already out (and they are still
talking about modifications?!?) I am sure they will eventually figure it
out but it may be long after they put most small broadcasters out of
business.

George Gonos



-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of
A9xw at cs.com
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:23 AM
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: Re: [SBE] Ready to turn analog back on?

In a message dated 3/10/2008 9:17:56 AM Central Daylight Time,
billb at khmt.com
writes: 

> 

> I received my first converter box call. You guessed it, she can not 

> get

our

> analog signals and our digitals are still low power. 


Well it is for digital TV, not the continuation of analog since analog
TV sets can still work for LPTV etc. If the converter box puts out
baseband, then use the line in on most TV sets, and if RF, add a simple
splitter/combiner to get the OTA antenna and the box output to the one
spigot on the TV marked ANT. 
If your DTV is still low power, who's responsibility is that?    
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