Elder statesman of hip hop Jay-Z recently put out a song called “D.O.A(Death of Autotune).” But more broadly, outside of the tiny section of the blogopshere that consists of rap blogs, we have experienced another DOA–Death of Analog.
We have officially gone digital across the board for television. All stations were required to shutdown analog transmitters at midnight of 12 June.
How prepared were we? Not too bad according to Nielsen, which reported that only 2.8 million homes were completely unprepared. This doesn’t say much since one can just go out and get the $40 signal converter at an electronics store pretty easily, though this is less so the case with elderly viewers, who make up a big chunk of that 2.8 million, I’m guessing.
But all in all, it wasn’t a big deal… since most people have cable. Perhaps the biggest much-to-do-about-nothing deadline since Y2K.
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Michael // June 13, 2009 at 1:00 pm |
You know the worst part, no more static snow!!
SH // June 13, 2009 at 1:02 pm |
I know right. Nam June Paik would be kind of disappointed I think.