DTV Transition Public Meeting
The Transition to Digital TV
TV stations serving all markets in the United States are airing digital television programming today, although most will continue to provide analog programming through February 17, 2009. At that point, full-power TV stations will cease broadcasting on their current analog channels, and the spectrum they use for analog broadcasting will be reclaimed and put to other uses.
The Commission's digital tuner rule specifies that as of March 1, 2007, all new TVs must include digital tuners. This rule prohibits the manufacture, import, or interstate shipment of any device containing an analog tuner, unless it also contains a digital tuner. Despite this prohibition on manufacture and shipment, retailers may continue to sell analog-only devices from existing inventory. As a result, at the point of sale, many consumers may not be aware that this equipment will not be able to receive over-the-air-television signals after February 17, 2009.
Click on the Pictures above to go to either the FCC or the NAB websites that have been set up to aid the consumers with the Transition. All Questions on how to make the switch, as well as even antenna concerns can be answered by these websites.
Click to apply for the Convertor box coupon, presented by the NTIA:
Pictures and Video of SBE39's Seminar coming soon...
Local Stations have also set up websites in order to aid viewers. If you would like your station link represented here, Contact Us.
predict the strengths of DTV signals at arbitrary street
addresses. The program appears to consider both the curvature
of the earth and terrain obstructions and may be extremely
valuable in helping your viewers. Technical notes follow:
o Once an address is entered, several seconds may
be required for the results to appear.
o The "red teardrop" depicting the location
may be dragged to another location for new calculations.
o The program accepts geographic coordinate input in
decimal degrees, but be sure to enter a minus sign before
the longitude. For example: 33.807049, -117.125244.
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps/