Yet digital television (DTV) is but a bit player in the larger scheme of society’s quickening swing to an all-digital world.
ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER BOX FOR TV ACT TV
Conveniently, it’s the day analog TV broadcasting shuts down, leaving digital signals as the only way for viewers to receive over-the-air channels. With apologies to World War II vets, June 12, 2009, should be declared D-Day. On June 11, 2009, a day before the analog switch was flipped, S&V’s Michael Antonoff wrote about the impending changeover to digital TV in “Good riddance to analog TV”:
The boxes typically cost between $50 and $70 but the government offered a $40 coupon to ease the transition-and financial burden it placed on low-income families.
were to cease broadcasting in analog and switch over to digital by Februbut Congress extended the deadline to Jamid fears that millions of TV-loving Americans would be left in the dark.Ī year earlier, the government with help from broadcasters launched a massive public service campaign targeting the 15 million households that received TV over the air via an antenna to make sure they were informed of the changeover and aware that they would need a digital converter box to continue watching TV. Under the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005, all full-power TV stations in the U.S. Although it seems like an eternity, it’s only been eight years since the federal government pulled the plug on analog TV, giving way to today’s all-digital world of television.
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