 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to kickass69
Re: just take the spectrum from the tv stations. said by kickass69:It's bad enough that channels 51 to 69 are gone with how squeezed TV stations are...atleast in major markets and close to other major cities....some even on the same channel number not even 100 miles away. Should've never got rid of 51 to 69 ultimately. Maybe in LA or NY. In Nashville there are 2 stations above channel 36 in Memphis there's 1 channel above 31.
Also with digital if all the stations would broadcast from the same tower area and same power you can have adjacent channels without interference |
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| Many areas, especially rural areas, will all combine onto a single transmitter and sell off the rest, split the profits, and call it good. Why put 1 station in 6Mhz when you can put 5 or 6? Compress the hell out of it and have absolutely horrible picture quality.
No one watches OTA anyway, right? Screw 'em /sarcasm/
We have 1 independent station on UHF 27 struggling to stay alive. I'm sure they would love to shut down their transmitter and hook up with someone else.
The future of true HD quality OTA is at risk. It will not be a necessity as a way to keep the general public informed about emergencies or whatever. HD will become a luxury for those who choose to pay for it. |
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Camden, TN | said by scott2020:Many areas, especially rural areas, will all combine onto a single transmitter and sell off the rest, split the profits, and call it good. Why put 1 station in 6Mhz when you can put 5 or 6? Compress the hell out of it and have absolutely horrible picture quality.
No one watches OTA anyway, right? Screw 'em /sarcasm/
We have 1 independent station on UHF 27 struggling to stay alive. I'm sure they would love to shut down their transmitter and hook up with someone else.
The future of true HD quality OTA is at risk. It will not be a necessity as a way to keep the general public informed about emergencies or whatever. HD will become a luxury for those who choose to pay for it.
None of what you wrote has to do with the topic. Mobile doesn't need spectrum in rural areas. It needs it for the big cities. So no one is going to be interested in the spectrum from some station in Bumfuck Egypt. |
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| This topic is about incentive auctions, and TV stations will be incentivised for combining and selling back their spectrum regardless of where they are. Smaller market struggling TV stations will have more of an incentive to cut costs and bring in more money in some way. As a result, the future is suckier HD OTA. I'd say that has a lot to do with this topic. |
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Portage, IN | reply to BF69
Nashville and Memphis aren't the problem. The problems (so they claim) are in NY and Chicago and LA and SF. Because they don't want to spend the money to build the network required to support tomorrow's usage with so many concurrent users.
If the wireless oligarchy can provide usable service today in Manhattan (which they can and do), there will never be a problem in Memphis or Nashville. |
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