[SBE] 4 more monts?

[Henry M. Seiden]

Barry, take it slow. Henry R. has gone over the top, methinks. I hope  
it's his vain attempt at being humorous in the last paragraph. At  
least I hope that's so. Clearly some didn't find it funny. Me too.

Way off topic, for sure. The transition, if you wish to call it that,  
has clearly become a political football and NO LONGER AN ENGINEERING  
OR TECHNICAL ONE. Many are saying a lot worse. I thought that this  
list was all about a technical discussion. Maybe we should move this  
to the neighborhood bar instead? That's where I'm going. Let the  
fisticuffs ensue.

His second paragraph speaks to the rating consequences of viewership  
reductions because of a mismanaged 'transition', not exactly on topic  
or a technical discussion either.

Keeping what may be old equipment going for that time may be a bit  
clearer to our concerns here. Perhaps a government sponsored crawl on  
all analog channels should be mandated to the tune of $600M. Will  
cooler heads prevail in Congress? I think not.

I don't know of any easy way to quit analog except to go cold turkey.  
Wasn't nearly as bad with any other transition (stereo, color TV,  
digital FM, satellite) since it hasn't meant actually turning anything  
off permanently. I think stopping at that make the point.

Henry S.


On Jan 30, 2009, at 15:59 , A9xw at cs.com wrote:


> Besides, you can't turn off analog in February, its