100% of people watching TV in football and baseball stadiums will lose reception to all channels next year. The reason is that there are no hand held devices on the market that can actually receive digital TV via a small antenna. There is a mobile digital TV standard under development but I don't think it is going to go live before the shutoff. Try and buy a hand held TV at BestBuy. Guess what? You can't! There used to be loads of portable TVs for sale. Millons have been sold. You can toss them all in the recyling bin come Febuary 2009.
You can blame that on the format-soup of the USA. Europe and Asia have that taken care of with one universal standard for broadcast TV, cable TV, Satellite TV, and mobile TV. Just like how all their cellphone providers use the same technology. God that shit drives me crazy here in the USA... why the hell can't the FCC mandate standards just like they do with NTSC/ATSC.. You can yell at all the "let the free market decide" conservative idiots..
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100% of people watching TV in football and baseball stadiums will lose reception to all channels next year. The reason is that there are no hand held devices on the market that can actually receive digital TV via a small antenna. There is a mobile digital TV standard under development but I don't think it is going to go live before the shutoff. Try and buy a hand held TV at BestBuy. Guess what? You can't! There used to be loads of portable TVs for sale. Millons have been sold. You can toss them all in the recyling bin come Febuary 2009.
Shrug. Same can be said of the people still trying to use analog cell phones. Sometimes you get left behind.
You can blame that on the format-soup of the USA. Europe and Asia have that taken care of with one universal standard for broadcast TV, cable TV, Satellite TV, and mobile TV. Just like how all their cellphone providers use the same technology. God that shit drives me crazy here in the USA... why the hell can't the FCC mandate standards just like they do with NTSC/ATSC.. You can yell at all the "let the free market decide" conservative idiots..