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I'm sorry I am not going to explain this real well, but I know someone will know what I am talking about. I was in the Post Office and saw a sign about televisions and everyone needing to change something about their TV's before a certain date. It may have said digital or something. Anyway, what is needing to be changed? I remember something about money rebates for it a long time ago.

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All those who have TV's will be part of the new world order!:tease



Actually, it just means your Rabbit Ears or Antennas won't work for a digital signal!

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TV is moving from analog signal to digital. A TV must now have a digital receiver or be hooked to cable or satellite to work. As Ron stated antenna and rabbit ears will no longer work for TV

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BUt what does that mean? What is it about?

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do digital receivers still use an antenna?

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Wrong. Rabbit ears will, after Feb 09, recieve only a digital signal. that signal will have to be runt hru a converter box.

40 dollar rebate cards have been available to reduce the cost of this conversion to 10 to 40 bucks.

The didgital signal is allready being broadcast. After Feb 09 the old analog signal will no longer be broadcast.

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yup..they also can use cable

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The old analog channels are going to be avilable to emergency frequency's like Bambulances and Fire fighters.

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The FCC/Government wants the lower level band widths for their own use and so they are taking them over. These band widths have been used by Television broadcast for years and can be picked up by areal antennas and rabbit ears.

The FCC gave all tv stations a mandate to vacate these channels/bands by Feb 2009 thus forcing them to move up to the higher "digital" band widths. These higher bands require either a digital converter--which an areal antenna or rabbit ears plugs into--or for the person wanting tv to subscribe to digital TV service.

If you already have cable tv--nothing changes you are already on digital channels. If not, you need to either get cable or buy one of those converter boxes (at Best buy or where-ever) to plug your rabbit ears and tv into..

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yes...the antenna is used to pick up the digital signal just like the analog signal...if you have cable you don't need the converter box or an antenna...

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Hey, T1, thank for the answer. The reason I am asking actually is because it brought me back to about 20 years ago when RD Whalen was preaching about how the antichrist was going to use fiberoptics so they could keep tabs on every household. Do you remember that? Anyway, can they keep better tabs on us with this stuff?? LOL! It sounds pretty far out but I still have those old tapes in my head and with the economy and Obama and all that, well, I had to ask! :)

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LOL...this really has more to do with a limited number of those lower bands and the fcc/government wanting to reserve them for the future use with fire, ambulance, police, and military communication equipment...than some spy on you stuff....

In reality for many people nothing is changing since they already have cable/digital tv...

I remember the old scare tactic days too...goodness.

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Yeah, I was just making sure this wasn't what was happening!! LOL!

Do you remember his stories about The Beast in Brussels Belgium? A huge computer that was going to store all our information?

Seriously, I think about these things and the internet. We have no privacy anymore and it's just "normal" to most people!

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I live way out in the country and have satellite service. But for local channels I have a 30ft antenna. I switched to digital this week and it was easy. All you do is get a converter box and hook it up between the antenna and the tv. The channels are very clear! I was amazed at how good the picture was. Also, you might be able to pick up a few more channels. I discovered about two or three new channels that were either local weather channels or public access type channels.

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The newly available government controlled waves are also the range used to track RFID chips.

THere is a $40 card that you can have sent to you to help pay for the converter box needed if you don't have cable or sat.

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That is good to know.Only one question for those of us who enjoy listening to Fire and Police scanners how will the change in freq.apply?[if you know]