Congress set year-end 2006 as the date when analog broadcast TV service will officially end

I have been saying it for years. Everything going off line in 2012!

"In the United States, Congress likely will legislate January 2009 as the shutoff date. The end-of-analog date in France is 2010. In Japan, it's 2011. The United Kingdom, which turned off analog broadcasts in one Welsh community this year as an experiment, is slated to phase out analog completely by the end of 2012.

ahh... so that's the message of the Mayan calendar...

I'm wondering if they are doing this because they expect a shift of some type and the analog signal may no longer work

if everything is turned off before then who would know ?

even if you had an analog tv it wouldn't work cause everything is off, but maybe that frequency changed

buy a converter

Vast amounts of bandwidth will become available for new uses and the broadcast TV scene will change when they change frequencies.

In the United States, you might see a modest dip in the federal budget deficit when the government sells off 108 megahertz of the old analog broadcast spectrum for as much as US $50 billion, by some estimates.

Congress, eager for the money, is pushing the FCC to start the auctions as soon as possible. The Congressional Budget Office is advising that the auctions be delayed until after other, unrelated spectrum auctions are completed. Spreading them out will prevent a sudden glut of bandwidth, thus optimizing returns. Auction winners would require a year or two to gather the money they'd need to invest in developing their newly acquired spectrum segments. So for them, if bandwidth is to become available at the end of 2008, auctions in early 2007 would be ideal.

"buy a converter"

rotfl :clogic:

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