{"id":130,"date":"2009-07-14T02:36:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T06:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-08-27T01:38:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T05:38:35","slug":"gossip-impact-of-digital-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/2009\/07\/14\/130\/","title":{"rendered":"Gossip: Impact of Digital TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/2009\/06\/27\/114\/\">built an antenna for myself<\/a>, and it brought me 72 channels.  Yes, you read it right, <b>72 channels<\/b>.  This makes me wonder why I used to pay hefty bucks to cable companies before.<\/p>\n<p>After I tuned my channel to channel 2, which tells people to switch to digital TV, I finally realized: it&#8217;s the picture quality.  In good old days the only way to guarantee crystal clear quality is to use cable or satellite TV.  Conventional UHF\/VHF channels always suffer from flaky and blurry pictures.  Digital TV is the game changer.  If the signal received is strong enough, you&#8217;ll get crystal clear pictures.  The worse you have is mosaic sometimes, which satellite TV already proved that people don&#8217;t quite care if the mosaic were controlled in certain degree.  <\/p>\n<p>So why should people pay these companies hefty subscriptions today?  IMO it&#8217;s just habit, and people still don&#8217;t know how good that simple antennas could bring to them.  Premier channels like CNN and HBO might be the reason, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a strong enough reason.  Along with my 72 channels, I only watch about 10 to 12 of them.  I remembered when I was with Cox cable (150 channels) and DISH network (100 channels), I still watch about 10 to 12 of them.  For guys like me, I only care if I can get my sports channel hosting games I wanna see, and NBC\/ABC did a fairly good job of it, in OTA TV.<\/p>\n<p>If the cable companies couldn&#8217;t think of something creative, they&#8217;ll play defense very hard for both local DTVs and the forthcoming FTTH competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cchsu.com\/art-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}