[SBE] 4 more months? Slight, hopefully positive thread drift..

[Bob Reite]

I was planning to tape the shutoff in our market off the air, however 
some stations have already shut off early :-(   On the positive side, I 
won't have to borrow a bunch of VCRs to cover everyone.

Tom Bosscher wrote:

> If I may,

> 

>    I would like to ask all of the TV engineers involved in the analog 

> shutoff to do one simple thing:

> 

> Video tape it.

> 

>    I know, in many cases one could dial up the remote control and shut 

> down the analog.

> But this is a historic moment. Use a station camera or a simple cam 

> corder. Then put a twenty second wrap around it, and put it up on You Tube.

> Label it "Analog Shutoff WXYZ", so we can all find them.

> 

> Twenty years from now, when we are all in our rocking chairs at my new 

> broadcast engineering retirement home, "Sign-off Acres", we can look at 

> the videos, after we transfer them to 16 mm, and watch them on our Bell 

> and Howell movies projectors!

> 

>    Most seriously, please pass the word and ask all TV engineers to 

> video tape the moment.

> 

>    Tom Bosscher, a radio engineering type guy...

> 

> 

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