No, mine has the volume/power knob above the vhf and uhf dials, and my dials have skinnier handles, oh, and I may have about 24 trazillion knobs hidden behind a door to control picture quality. Ah... the picture quality, so much better than a general 90s television.
Honestly, I don't really care about the transition, all the stations have been multicasting in both for a long long time, except for the worthless HSN, and a spanish channel, and a half dozen religious channels that nobody cares about. But I do like the over the air quality I get in HD, and most of the secondary, thirdinary, fourhinary, and fifthinary channels that come along with some stations!
My station (and all other stations in the South Bend area) made the switch on the original date in Feb.
The government QQ'ed that not everyone was ready yet, which is absolute bollocks, but we went ahead and switched anyways.
To say the switch was a cluster- of epic proportions is an understatement. We had a phone bank set up, and they had all of the production crew answering calls between broadcasts because we didn't have enough people to take all the calls. It was unbelievable how many people are clueless.... not about the actual DTV transition, but people that didn't understand how to set up and operate their newfangled DTV converter box!
So fortunately for us, we crossed this bride months ago.
I watched the NBA finals game yesterday over the analog airwaves for old times' sake.
Actually, it was because my roommate is moving out and already disconnected her converter box. The one thing I'll miss about the analog signal is that I can get used to a fuzzy picture, but I can't get used to a picture that's fine one second, and gets blocky and cuts the audio the next second.
My station (and all other stations in the South Bend area) made the switch on the original date in Feb.
The government QQ'ed that not everyone was ready yet, which is absolute bollocks, but we went ahead and switched anyways.
To say the switch was a cluster- of epic proportions is an understatement. We had a phone bank set up, and they had all of the production crew answering calls between broadcasts because we didn't have enough people to take all the calls. It was unbelievable how many people are clueless.... not about the actual DTV transition, but people that didn't understand how to set up and operate their newfangled DTV converter box!
So fortunately for us, we crossed this bride months ago.
Should have had a recording that said, "It's not your TV station's job to help you hook up your TV."
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
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This is easier to prep for than programming the time on a VCR for gods sake.
/me looks at his parents' blinking 12:00 on their VCR....
Honestly, I don't really care about the transition, all the stations have been multicasting in both for a long long time, except for the worthless HSN, and a spanish channel, and a half dozen religious channels that nobody cares about. But I do like the over the air quality I get in HD, and most of the secondary, thirdinary, fourhinary, and fifthinary channels that come along with some stations!
Can't wait to see how everyone takes on these new changes either.
The government QQ'ed that not everyone was ready yet, which is absolute bollocks, but we went ahead and switched anyways.
To say the switch was a cluster- of epic proportions is an understatement. We had a phone bank set up, and they had all of the production crew answering calls between broadcasts because we didn't have enough people to take all the calls. It was unbelievable how many people are clueless.... not about the actual DTV transition, but people that didn't understand how to set up and operate their newfangled DTV converter box!
So fortunately for us, we crossed this bride months ago.
Actually, it was because my roommate is moving out and already disconnected her converter box. The one thing I'll miss about the analog signal is that I can get used to a fuzzy picture, but I can't get used to a picture that's fine one second, and gets blocky and cuts the audio the next second.
Should have had a recording that said, "It's not your TV station's job to help you hook up your TV."