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  • Monday, June 23, 2008

    Orlando stations simulate end of analog

    Are you ready for your digital TV test? On Wednesday night, 11 O-Town TV stations will simulate the end of analog broadcasting and go dark to let viewers know if they're ready for the digital TV age to begin.

    Here's how it will work: At 7:59 p.m., these local television stations -- WESH-NBC 2, WKMG-CBS 6, WFTV-ABC 9, WCEU-PBS 15, WKCF-CW 18, WMFE-PBS 24, WVEN-Univision 26, WRDQ-Independent 27, WOTF-Telefutura 43, WTGL-Independent 45 and WBCC-PBS 68 -- will first alert viewers and explain how the test will work. Each station will then simulate the termination of analog broadcasting by removing the video signal that feeds the analog transmitter for 10 seconds causing the screen to go dark.

    On each participating station's digital broadcasts, and on cable and satellite systems that receive direct feeds from the station, the station will notify viewers that they have successfully passed the test. At the conclusion of each test, stations will notify viewers that if their screen went blank they need to take corrective action -- such as getting a digital TV converter box for their analog sets.

    Also, during the test broadcasts, each station will provide a toll-free telephone number and Web site for additional DTV transition assistance.

    This is the first of three tests the area stations are uniting to perform. Noticeably absent from the test are Orlando's two Fox-owned TV stations -- WOFL-Fox 35 and WRBW-MyNetworkTV 65.

    The local stations will switch off their analog signals for good on Feb. 17, 2009.

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    Comments:
    Wouldn't it just make more sense to run a comerical on the analog only channels that basicly says that this channel will no longer be onair after feburary xx and if you are reciving this this will affect you.
    There are cable comapnys that are reciving the off air analog signal and rebroadcasting it too...

    Are the TV station that dumb in this area ????
     
    That is actually the point. If a cable company is still carrying the analog signal this lets the viewer know their cable company needs to upgrade to digital.

    If the signal is already via digital or other means then the viewer now understands that cable and satellite viewers on their system are not effected by this change.

    All too often it is the people on cable and satellite that think they need to buy something. And the people who have an antenna who think they need to do nothing. When the reality is the opposite.
     
    Comcast lake county is abunch of flunkies since the big 3 networks all failed the test on that system's analog offering.
     
    I think its amazing what a bunch of sheep the news paper writers are.
    Comcast Lake County is one of several cable head-ins that was not ready for the test and wont be until November. But the print media writers are such lambs that they just took the stuff these tv stations fed them. Perhaps those stations that did not apply did so because they knew there were places (including the satellite companies) that would deliver faulty data.
     
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