I'm surprised the FCC doesn't require that broadcasters continue supporting analog viewers until the switchover date. The part about doing it to be ready for the Super Bowl doesn't make any sense (unless they don't have enough power to drive both analog and digital transmitters).
It kinda makes sense in the fact that they might want to roll out their digital equipment as to have time to work out any bugs they might have as well as allow their viewers time to adjust to the switch to digital. Also some broadcasters switching to all digital before the date will make some of those people who have no idea what this change means to them realize that they can't watch DTV with their analog tuners.
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I'm surprised the FCC doesn't require that broadcasters continue supporting analog viewers until the switchover date. The part about doing it to be ready for the Super Bowl doesn't make any sense (unless they don't have enough power to drive both analog and digital transmitters).
It kinda makes sense in the fact that they might want to roll out their digital equipment as to have time to work out any bugs they might have as well as allow their viewers time to adjust to the switch to digital. Also some broadcasters switching to all digital before the date will make some of those people who have no idea what this change means to them realize that they can't watch DTV with their analog tuners.