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You can get two free $40 coupons for digital to analog TV converter boxes on this web page Note: This will only raise your taxes by $160.00.
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Don't expect much response to it. Over-the-air HDTV is in the UHF band and even if you can get decent reception there are at most two or three channels in each market to choose from.
If you have cable or DBS this change will make no difference to you. Unfortunately everybody now will have to subscribe to one or the other if they want to watch TV whether HD or standard def.
-Hal
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: Some comments made by me are known to the State of California to cause irreversible brain damage and serious mental disorders leading to confinement.
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Thanks for the tip! I'll be paying the taxes for this program regardless, so I've just cut my costs in half.
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But we'll get a reduction in taxes once the government auctions off those VHF frequencies to the highest bidder. Yeah, right.  -Hal
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At first I was confused with this whole thing about convertor boxes, then I realized that you won't need them if you have cable :thumb:
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I must be doing something wrong hbiss. I pickup ABC NBC CBS FOX PBS and a couple others on my HDTV with an antenna.
Its wild to see such a clear picture, then turn to the regular station and its fuzzy.
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I have to subscribe to cable or satellite, since the only station I can pick up is one of the previously taxpayer supported stations and it's fuzzy at best. Since my broadband is on cable and I don't have to pay extra to get something fixed when it quits with cable, I guess I'm sticking with the tether. (Yeah, I know I'm paying the 'extra' up front)
Curiosity got the best of me, so I went to the link,"Retailer information will be posted when it becomes available" or something like that, with ONLY 414 days to go! John C. (Not Garand)
When I was young, I was Liberal. As I aged and wised up, I became Conservative. Now that I'm old, I have settled on Curmudgeon.
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I must be doing something wrong hbiss. I pickup ABC NBC CBS FOX PBS and a couple others on my HDTV with an antenna.
No, you must be lucky. Off air UHF reception was always a problem in most areas, particularly in the caverns of cities. Also, because they tend to be scattered all over an area you need an antenna rotor to receive them all unless you are really close.
The only reason UHF stations survived was because the FCC told cable operators that they had to carry them on their systems. If they had to rely only on their off-air coverage they would have died long ago.
-Hal
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I laugh every time i hear someone talking about this crap. The paranoia. I mean really; how many have a set of rabbit ears on their tv sets anymore? Not even novella, telemundo, junkies tolerate this type of reception anymore.
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Originally posted by hbiss: ...government auctions off those VHF frequencies to the highest bidder.
Yeah, right.
-Hal Rumor has it google is up on the bid. ?New cell services or wireless internet services?
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