Box Office Weekly #083
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In todays show: The FCC pushes the cable companies around… Disney readies a sequel to TRON – maybe this one will be written by a computer!… and in this week’s commentary; Skot has helpful suggestions for the smell-o-vision people. All this and the 3:10 to Yuma comes around every 50 years, today on Box Office Weekly.
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September 15th, 2007 at 4:49 am
New cable regulations - clear as mud. Sorry, Dan… at some point I stopped hearing what you said cuz you started to sound like bees.
Basically, there’s a firm, mandatory government-issued order to absolutely phase out all analog TV transmissions in February, 2009, but it won’t really take effect until 2012 at which point no expense will be spared to continue to cater to folks with analog sets for the foreseeable future and beyond. But then it’s gonna stop. By 2150 for sure. Well, 2525, but that’s it, Mister! By then, you’re gonna have to shell out for a digital TV.
Hey, wasn’t there an analog TV in the officers’ breakroom on the Enterprise in the original Star Trek?
September 15th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Interestingly, there’s an upside to the perpetually delayed changeover. Imagine they had gotten their act together and actually stopped all NTSC broadcasting a couple of years ago. At that time, millions of TVs would have obsoleted all at once. Great for RCA, really bad for the environment.
Though this reminds me of something… I wonder if there will be any profit in a tuner-retrofitting business? Say your local TV repair shop is willing to swap out your old tuner with a digital-capable one? You’d still only have an SD picture of course, but it’s gotta be cheaper than a completely new televsion.