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Render - 10 responses to this thread were posted. I have consolidated them. Sorryfor the top post. Today I have seen black and white portable sets for as low as $14.99! We recently picked up some color 13" sets for under $100. There's no mention anywhere that these sets will be useless before the end of the decade. I wonder how many average consumers are aware of this? I can see people buying analog TVs right up until the drop dead date. There'll still be plenty of TV's out there that are NTSC in 2009. Whatever replaces the bandwidth currently being used will be tuned by those sets. I've got a little 5" B&W unit with a variable tuner - I can pick up paging systems and public safety and interestingly, some cell traffic if I tune in just the right areas.Not exactly. Once upon a time televisions went up to channel 83 (890MHz). I forget the year, but the FCC took away everything abovechannel 69 (806 MHz and above). This was reallocated to analogcellular telephone and land-mobile services (public safety &business). Early on much of the activity in this band was analog andcould be tuned with an older model TV that tuned past channel 69.The current plan is to take away channels 60-69 (746 - 806 MHz) andreallocate that to land-mobile. However it will be purely digital. Aquarter-century old television will not demodulate that.And per the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 you could goto prison for tuning your television past channel 80 as that belongsto cellular telephone. It's a very poorly written law thatcriminalizes the mere tuning of those frequencies regardless of yourintent. RF engineers who use test equipment in that range technicallyare breaking the law. The other thing to keep in mind about CRT based televisions is that over a period of about 5 years they're pretty much shot nowadays. I can already see my 5 year old set redding out. But then it gets heavy usage.I got a television for Christmas when I was eleven years old. I willturn 35 this year. The television still works as well as the day"Santa" brought it to me. No, they don't make TV's like they used to! The only thing that will be really nice about HDTV is the wide aspect ratio. But that will be for moot when Hollywood gets it's hooks in and decided what I can watch and where I can watch it.That's a whole other issue ... ;-) If it gets much worse I think I'm just going to toss the television entirely. I refuse to buy CD's until the RIAA stops it's warrantless war. If the MPAA gets any more power I just throw the finger to television and movies too. There are still books I haven't read. :)I did this years ago, but it was because there was simply nothing onworth watching. The only TV I see is "second hand" television (mywife is an addict). Very few people realize that there is a sunset on analog tv. Of those, very few actually believe it will happen. Congress forgets that the people that will be forced to buy a bunch of new tv's and convertors are the same people that elect them to office. I have never believed the Dec 31, 2006 sunset date for NTSC.Another issue is transmitter, antenna, and tower construction. I readsomewhere that the manufacturers of these products simply can't keepup. In some areas broadcasters are having problems finding a placefor their new towers. Environmental concerns, NIMBY's, etc. arepreventing them from going up. Now this "news" I heard a few yearsago. Perhaps the log-jam has broken, I don't know.I don't believe the deadline either. Cellular still hasn't gone 100% digital, it seems odd to me that analog cellular seems to be getting a longer sunset period than analog television is getting (based on when digital cellular service first became available vs. when DTV became available). And people have more tv's than cellphones, I have two cellphones in my household, but have seven televisions.Could it be because a telephone (be it land-line or cellular) islooked upon as a necessity? You should be able to call 9-1-1 fromyour cell phone the size of a brick?There'
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