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strider_mt2k
06/13/09

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Nothing lasts forever.
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infmom
06/12/09

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I'm an old person and I'm not giving up the rabbit ears. They provide the reception to our converter box, at least till my old husband puts up the outside antenna he's been talking about for 15 years.

Yeah, we also have cable.
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travisvannimwegen
06/12/09

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I agree completely with theeraserhead.
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infmom
06/12/09

@Travis VanNimwegen: Is that a big ditto from you?
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mikegriffin
06/12/09

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Analog, Digital-same old shit.
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IN THE FACE!
06/12/09

@mikegriffin:

+1 Insightful

Wait... um, no.
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hostile17
06/12/09

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"Today, June 12th, we'll all be moving over to digital television"

No, we won't ALL be moving over.

Americans will.

You know, the internets (and Gizmodo) is available to everyone you know?
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Cjay79
06/12/09

@hostile17: Indeed. Been watching digital channels on satellite, cable and broadcast tv in the UK for years now. It's kind of bizarre seeing some people having some sort of meltdown, or get confused over it, but I guess I understand that things are just different sometimes.

On a subject that's been mentioned in some other comments, it's true, some channels often look horrifically pixelated when you transition from analogue to digital, but that's not because of the method, it's because of the poor compression, equipment and recordings kept by some channels in a cost-cutting measure. Sometimes there's a show on Sky that just looks AWFUL because it's a poor copy, same with many other channels, but if it's a poor copy, I'll just change the channel and watch it elsewhere some other time.
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IN THE FACE!
06/12/09

@Cjay79: Yup, nobody can freaking flip the fuck out about something stupid like us 'Muricans can. Well, not me specifically, but generally...
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cattrain
06/12/09

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Analog > Digital. See that picture you posted up there? Ya, that's about the quality difference. Before, I would get clear pictures with the occasional snow. Now I get the same picture with regular channel death. I even got an inline signal amp, and the channel that was clearest before is now impossible to wat 9/10 times I try to see it.
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IN THE FACE!
06/12/09

@cattrain: An inline amp won't do shit if you have a crappy antenna...

Do a little research, and I'm sure you'll discover somewhere along the line, that you're a dip-shit.
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i38warhawk
06/12/09

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People still watch TV over the air?
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kylenalepa
06/12/09

@i38warhawk: I canceled my cable and switched to OTA and Hulu/Bittorrent to save money. Works great.
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Skorpius
06/12/09

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Its kind of a sad day. Think of all the history and all that has come before. Its truly the end of an era. I'll forever miss the local TV of the late 70's and 80's with monster movies, cartoons, and all manner of weirdness on the airwaves. Those days are long gone, but this is that final death knell to a time we'll never see again.
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IN THE FACE!
06/12/09

@Skorpius: Yes, because changing the transmission format of local broadcasting == the death of local broadcasting? WTF are you smoking?
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theeraserhead
06/12/09

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Man! Gizmodo is such an Obama ass kisser / cool aid. Can't pass a week without another reference to him.
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d_r_e
06/12/09

@theeraserhead:

If you don't like it, THEN YOU CAN GEEEEET OUT!!!!
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GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
06/12/09

@theeraserhead: I read your complaint and feel your pain. I know someone who can cure it:

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Who Shot Who in the What Now?
06/12/09

@theeraserhead: Barack Obama cured my gout. What have you done besides complaining on the Internet?
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GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
06/12/09

@Who Shot Who in the What Now?: Really? B/c I have gout myself. What did you take? Was it laying on of hands? B/c I'd let him touch me if it would stop all the pain when I have a flare/swell up.
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theeraserhead
06/12/09

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Man! Gizmodo is such an Obama ass kisser / cool aid drinker. Can't pass a week without another reference to him.
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nathantrumbull
06/12/09

@theeraserhead: Why post this twice? Obama is the leader of the free world and I doubt you could go a week without saying his name in a positive or negative light.

Get over yourself.

Don't post things twice.
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dave the wet sprocket
06/12/09

@theeraserhead: moron. everbody knows it's "kool-aid".
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Con Seannery
06/12/09

@Nathan Trumbull: I don't say his name. I use PresBO. Also, and I know this is said for all Presidents, but isn't it a tad egotistical to call the US the leader of the free world? I mean, yeah, we're a powerful nation, but that kind of falls right in with out World Police package.
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GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
06/12/09

@theeraserhead: Praise his name and stop blaspheming! Or he will strike down with furious anger those who attempt to poison and confuse his children!

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GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
06/12/09

@OMG! Con Seannery!: While I agree with you, last week I was told multiple times that since the US Government didn't fund a certain type of stem cell research for 8 years, it prevented the entire world from doing any research and/or coming up with any treatments. So yes, they do control the world!
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GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
06/12/09

@dave the wet sprocket: It was actually "Flavor-Aid" used in Jonestown. People who say Kool-Aid are being racist as it's a stereotype that African Americans drink Kool-Aid. [www.google.com]
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Cjay79
06/12/09

@SupremeCourtNominee_GitEmSteve...: Actually that's not true, because while the U.S. banned said research, a lot of the researchers carried on their research in other countries that hadn't banned it, including in the U.K..

It's now part of the conservative argument against resuming said research, putting forward the notion that research into stem cells has reached such a point that the formerly banned kind of research is backward and something of an archaism.
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GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
06/12/09

@Cjay79: Shhhhhh. You're talking crazy. Science and everything was delayed at least a decade by the Bush administration. It's main stream knowledge. There's no room for your "facts" in it. Or at least that's what I was told: [gizmodo.com]

But yeah, thank you for showing me there are people out there who realize we aren't the center of the universe. You made me have a little more faith.
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