Posted by Biz on 10/05/41 11:29

"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
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> The US has over 1000 different TV stations all broadcasting digital TV
> today, with well over 90% of the households in the country served by at
> least 5 different OTA digital signals. Many of those signals are HD.
>
> There isn't another country in the world that comes close to as much OTA
> digital TV, and the difference is even worse when you compare HDTV
> availability OTA.


And teh number of households actually watching digital OTA is still very
small...no matter what the broadcast capabilities are currently. Which is
the whole point of the inevitable slide in the timeframe. The installed
based of analog sets/households with no current equipment capability to even
receive these digital OTA's is huge, and that is what will need to be
overcome b4 the transition away form analog can take place...

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