Haleakala Times
Sam Epstein, June 17, 2008
Part One of this two-part article discussed how the scheduled upcoming nation-wide switch from analog to digital broadcast television will affect the average viewer. We conclude with some of the local community benefits that the switch to Digital Television brings.
Most people that grew up with television in the previous century remember it being completely different than the television our kids experience today. We recall a choice of three or maybe four “real” channels – if you included the Public Broadcasting System, PBS.
We were bewitched the day television transformed from black and white to color before our eyes. If you were REALLY lucky, you might have been able to tune in a cartoon on a snowy UHF channel, reached with a gear-grinding spin of a mechanical channel knob up into the thirties, or even more amazingly, up into the high sixties. Amazing, because there were still only six or seven channels, and we wondered what to do with all the empty ones.
Even though you could change the channel, they all had one thing in common...
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