[Kenwood] RE: [Heathkit] OFF TOPIC QUERY

[Steve Harrison]

At 06:41 PM 10/1/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>Not so! HD channels are both VHF and UHF (up until last March I worked 
>for a Reno TV station and helped but their VHF HD channel on the air). 
>And don't hold you breath on the 2009 shutdown date for analog channels. 
>I think there will be a real uproar when folks realize that they will be 
>forced to acquire new sets on some certain date. Congress will likely 
>back off on their ill-conceived mandate on shutdown of the analog 
>channels when their constituency gets excited.

Obviously, what everybody else is hoping for is that 99.99% will be on
cable by then.

Which makes me wonder just what the heck is the whole point of all them TV
stations spending all that money on all that HD junk, when there'll be
almost nobody to watch them except out in the boonies. Just about everybody
in cities is already on cable or using them lil dinky DishTV thingies.

We're not even gonna bother shelling out the moolah for a HDTV just for
cable, let alone to watch the two or three remaining on-the-air stations we
can receive here in southwestern Connecticut.

Steve, K0XP