Sunday, February 08, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
A nagging thought...
Riddle me this...
With the whole u.s. switching over to digital what's gonna happen to all those orphaned analog signals? Will intrepid ne'er-do-wells find a way to "break into TV" ala pirate broadcast? And can it still be called Pirate TV when they're no longer interrupting your favorite reality show? I see a few possibilities:
1.Say hello to open source TV
2.TVphone becomes reality in much the same way IPods can invade radio via FM transmitter.
3.Our government commandeers the analog signals for some nefarious plan.
4.The FCC locks up said channels until our government goes belly up.
...I for one am keeping my rabbit ears for the possibility of number one. Then again, it's just a thought. :-)
With the whole u.s. switching over to digital what's gonna happen to all those orphaned analog signals? Will intrepid ne'er-do-wells find a way to "break into TV" ala pirate broadcast? And can it still be called Pirate TV when they're no longer interrupting your favorite reality show? I see a few possibilities:
1.Say hello to open source TV
2.TVphone becomes reality in much the same way IPods can invade radio via FM transmitter.
3.Our government commandeers the analog signals for some nefarious plan.
4.The FCC locks up said channels until our government goes belly up.
...I for one am keeping my rabbit ears for the possibility of number one. Then again, it's just a thought. :-)
Labels: big time TV, digital transition, headroom, max, pirate TV
