Friday, November 21, 2008

Digital What?

Last February I did a series of stories on the Digital Conversion taking place in 2009. It was an interesting topic to dig into. I interviewed a lot of fun people, including experts on the conversion, as well as senior citizens who were nothing but confused. The basis of the conversion is that, by law, all TV stations have to get rid of their analog signal and switch everything to digital. It will allow TV stations to broadcast a better picture with less interruptions, as well as broadcast more information on a smaller bandwidth. It's said to be pretty remarkable when all is said and done.

You can check out my stories at http://www.wctv.tv/dtv under "Digital TV Switch Headlines."

The conversion is pretty confusing to a lot of people. And as well as I may have explained it in my stories I'd have to say this one sums it up even better...

5 comments:

Tiffanie said...

That made me laugh hard! Thank you! Ohhh boy. . . so how are you doing anyway? Have you done your homework yet? I hope so.

Jared and Paige said...

Andrea, I didn't know that you had a blog. I'm so glad to find out. I heard from Brittany that you are in DC working for Senator Hatch. How is it going? Hope all is well.

Joshua and Joy said...

I'm glad that you are posting to your blog now. It will be fun to check out how you're doing. I hope the new job is going well...you haven't blogged about that yet. I do feel bad for the elderly in the whole digital conversion. A lot of them will be like the lady in the video.

Tiffanie said...

yes, that means, i want YOU to have to do the 5 and 5. i suspect it will be interesting. all the pictures you choose for your blog are so great!

Taylor Family said...

Andrea...it is so fun that we now have all these ways to keep up with everyone's life!!! Hope all is well!! Love, Jill