good old tuners going obsolete

Back to the subject ( and I speak unofficially ) From a Conversation I had with a reliable source. The government actually wanted no more analog stations at the end or 06. However there were no laws in place and even attempting to pass laws was difficult. It would be somewhat like attempting to pass a law to stop the oil prices from rising. Anyway when it was obvious that the TV manufactures and then folks transmitting the signals were not going to cooperate with the 06 deadline. The FCC ( and other government agencies ) got busy and found enough folks in the House and Senate to vote the 09 deadline for digital TV signal into law. As I said before the government wanted ALL of the analog signals already, including radio. If my source is correct ( and who can be with great certainty now days ) There will be another push to vote into law, a regulation to force the radio networks to broadcast in a completely digital format. Look for it no later than 2012 I was told.

Heck the government even bought out NEXTEL's Megahertz band which takes affect before 2012. Now that is clout!

On a side note. I remember when AMD released the first Athlon chip to the public. I saw the AMD rep in the store and he was proudly displaying this huge chip to all the would look. About a month later I was in a Best Buy store and I asked when the chip would be made smaller so it would fit in a laptop. The sales people in the computer department basically laughed me out of the store and told me " That will never happen " I told them some how it would happen, i had faith in technology. As I recall 6 months later I walked into that same Best Buy and they were selling laptops with the Athlon chip in them. Funny thing, those sales people were not working there any more.

I guess technology wont be stopped by our opinion ( or our desire ) of it not to improve.

"That would make Unclejeff one of the two? He does seem to agree with Acoustat6?"

Thanks for the explanation, KT_88. That makes sense to me now. Can you answer one more simple question for me? Why is the sky blue?

I guess I'm one of a few old farts set in his way that just hates to see an older technology phased out. I do know that technology moves on, and hopefully for the better.

Geez Kt_88,

I've already started to hoard analog tuners, and now you tell me analog's not going away until 2012? They'll all be out of alignment by then...

:-)

David

Sherod saidUh, Bob? What is your point?

Regarding my statement of, "Hello, If two people have the same opinion, one of you is unnecessary/redundant".

This is a discussion forum. If we all had the same opinion, same thoughts, a mutual admiration society would exist. What would be the point? I for one want different opions, thoughts and ideas to expand my own ideas and possibilites. I allready know what I know, what do others know that is interesting and fruitful for me to learn?
Bob

P.S. A mutual admiration society can be quite useful infact.
If you and I are using the same equipment or are searching in the same direction we could put our thoughts together to expand on the possibilites of the eqipment or setup etc.
This would be useful in this case.

So whats the problem? Do you think people who make high end tuners are going to make them become obsolete? Hell know! All the government has done is create a market for a device that will still make our Tuners still work. This is America people. If there is money to be made someone is already working on said device or there already is one that will hit the market say around 2011. Something like a digital to analog and then threw your stereo system. I'm holding on to my Tuner,it just sounds to good to let go and at least for now the music is still free.