What do you think of HDTV? why do you think that the goverment?

Question

is forcing us to convert our tvs over to HD Or we wont recieve a signal in Feb.2009? I am curious. Dont you think its a little odd and strange ? Because I do and maybe it is a way to track control us?

No I am not beig paranoid but let me know what you guys think

thnaks for answers.

Intellegent mature questions only please. Thanks

Answer 1

The transition is being brought about to free up that particular bandwidth, and therefore be used for other media such as cell phones.

There is no prime conspiracy here, at least none that I have found (and yes, I am a conspiracist) The means to track what you watch have been in place for several decades, via the cable or sat. provider networks.

All it will do if anything is to notify some low level FBI agent if you are watching Al Jazeera a little bit too much...which in my mind the FBI should be monitoring.

(I know this due to a former college teacher telling us that the FBI paid a "little" visit because one of his students was doing a paper on infrastructure weaknesses, and did a search for high profile high impact objects.)

The wanted to know WHY somebody was searching like he did...

Answer 2

First, as another poster pointed out, the conversion is to Digital television, not HD television and there’s a big difference between the two.  If you currently have Cable or Sat it will not even affect you, but if you are currently using an OTA antenna to receive your TV then you will need a converter box to convert the covert the signal.

Secondly, there is NO conspiracy here.  As another poster pointed out the signal is being changed to free up frequencies.  Analog takes up at least 4 times more bandwidth than Digital which is the main reason for the change to begin with.  Also, most of the frequencies are NOT for cell phones, but for Public Safety and Disaster Relief.  These freq’s are sorely needed to improve the pretty pathetic communication system we have in place now to prevent another Katrina or other communication nightmares.

Hope this helps,

weeder

Answer 3

It's a clearer picture, it takes less bandwidth to send the same message than analog does...

and it's just D, not HD. Digital, not High Definition.

Answer 4

you dont have to have an hd tv to get digital cable.

Answer 5

Cable and radio will always be way behind in the technology curve.  I think the government realized that cable was improving, but at such a slow rate that technology will keep progressing and they're almost regressing in a sense.

Its unfortunate for some people to go through this transition, but for the majority its a major plus.