HDTV DEADLINE SET!

[TF Admin]

They finally did it!

The House of Representatives early this morning adopted the House-Senate conference report on the DTV transition legislation, setting February 17, 2009 as the final day of analog (NTSC) TV broadcasts. This was a compromise between the House's December 31, 2008 date and the Senate's April 7, 2009 date.

As of Tuesday (12/20), the Senate was still debating the contentious larger budget bill that contains the DTV transition provisions.

The digital-to-analog converter box subsidy provision is similar to what had been in the House bill (H.R. 4241).

BYE-BYE ANALOG!!!!

TFADMIN

[wittzo]

The shows I watch really won't benefit from HD, like Southpark, Family Guy, The Daily Show...It will actually be detrimental to shows that use film ,like Lost, because it will show more defects and artifacts. Filmed TV shows will lose their gritty reality and just become dirty looking.

2009 gives me a few more years before my old TV's die so I can replace them naturally..Discovery Channel will look awesome though.

I hope they come up with some money to make the converter boxes cheap.

[TF Admin]

Wittzo, you're right, but the entire film process will change as well. Actually to some degree it has already begun. They will be using HD Cameras to film when the time comes. Sitcoms, dramas, soap operas will all be using HD Cameras.

TFADMIN

[beastmanjack]

The government said that they will buy all the old Analog TV's for pennies on the dollar once you have to go tto HDTV. I already have HDTV and the NASCAR and Football games in HDTV are just Great. Ad Surround and all you need is the popcorn

[wittzo]

admin said:

Wittzo, you're right, but the entire film process will change as well. Actually to some degree it has already begun. They will be using HD Cameras to film when the time comes.

If it's HD, it isn't film...right? ;D

I'm just turned off by using all digital for anything. Miami Vice was gritty because it was filmed and not videotaped. All the good shows are filmed because of the gritty feel. Star Wars Episode 2 worked (it's issues didn't involve the equipment ) but I didn't like the "feel" of Episode 3. It all looked too fake and computer generated because it was fake and computer generated.

I've changed my mind to a certain extent about Sky Captain and the WOT, but it still looks too fake, if they had left off the colorization process it would have been cool. Sin City is the only film that was all digital that works, probably because they kept it noir except for the few colored highlights.