DTV transition

Well, it’s been two days and I haven’t seen news of anyone spontaneously exploding or otherwise expiring.
The long day’s journey into night has taken place. We now have digital television and all is well with the world – sort of.
Proving that lying is more popular than ever, the station I wrote about  a couple of [...]

I’ve always moved through this life wondering why some of the things in life are so difficult to discern, and why no one helps out with a little truth. Perhaps that was the source of the John Lennon song, ‘Gimme Some Truth’.
Well, in matters of the digital transition for television, we are, at least in [...]

One thing is for certain, the government is never as efficient as it should be. It seems the best we can hope for is an occasional acknowledgement that it can, and should, be doing better for the citizens.
So it is with the FCC’s mandated transition to digital television. The moving of the date was a [...]

After writing about the latest in the long line of FCC blunders yesterday, I took a moment last night to see if the latest web page from the Federal Communications Complication was at all useful. It was stated to be a real time look at conditions for the DTV user.
I went to the site, and [...]

So, I’m looking around trying to find something I haven’t seen 12 times on other pages (it’s been a slow week for news items – you can only gush over the same 3 things at the big magazines for so long), and I find something from the long distance echo department (a boyhood euphemism for [...]

and some are not fine.
The digital television transition has been such a coordinated screw-up that you would think it was arranged by the same folks that gave us military intelligence - wait! it was those same people.
Yes, our government has pulled off another coup - once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  The [...]

So many things are happening today. Some changes today will affect the world for a long time. A really good thing is the uptick of wind as a source of power in the world.
The  good news is that the amount of wind-generated power is up 50% in the U.S. since last year. The bad news [...]

Reported on Betanews, the move to vote on the DTV delay may happen today in the House, with actual voting taking place tomorrow.
The US House Rules Committee is scheduled to vote late this afternoon on whether to bring the DTV Delay Bill back to the floor of the House for full consideration. Should that measure [...]

So says the arbiter of the airwaves. see article
It probably is too late to change this, and February 17 will be one of those asterisk days in history. People will say they remember the tumult and furor years later, and relate it to their children as part of an object lesson.
There is probably little chance [...]

In an article in TV Technology, a site that has been used by some, in citations designed to minimize the problems with the upcoming DTV transition, a new study is delivering significant news to the unbelievers, thinking that the very word digital is a panacea.
The study shows that approximately 58% of the population expecting to [...]

Over at Ars Technica, another article is posted by someone wishing to convince the administration, and the public at large, that the DTV transition date should not be extended.
The article starts with the premise that, because so many people already receive their television reception by satellite and cable is reason enough to avoid the delay. [...]

Though there are differing views on this, I think everyone must sense that the DTV transition is in complete disarray.
The fact that, with all else that there is on his plate, the President had spoken out, asking for a delay should speak volumes.
As if that was not enough, there is a new feature, designed to [...]

With the delay to vote on the postponement of the Digital Television changeover, a problem with partisan views is brought into sharp relief.
Looking to see that it was Republicans who blocked the vote on postponement, and eventually will try to block the postponement of the February 17 deadline, it does make for wonder if these [...]

for the further adventures of the FCC Keystone Cops.
Ars Technica has another article detailing the inept and insane behavior of the Federal Communications Commission, and its complete lack of control over the DTV transition. It is speaking now of the complete and total inability to cope with the meltdown that approaches with the (supposed) [...]

Does anyone remember the John Lennon song “Gimme Some Truth”? I do. I remember how I wnted some back then, in the days of Tricky Dick, and it hasn’t gotten much better since.
I’ve been railing against the idiocy of the DTV transition for a while now, hoping that some few just might get a clue. [...]