Analog Deathwatch

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Tomorrow will be the last day of analog transmission in the NTSC as all television broadcasters must broadcast in digital (ATSC) by the end of June 12, 2009.

Personally I think that digital television in America sucks, because instead of Britain where they built up the services to give consumers a reason to get digital tv (end to end widescreen programing, digital teletext via MHEG-5, multiple watchable channels), it appears like they'll be doing that after the switchover.

Anyway say your final thoughts about NTSC and your hopes for the switchover here.

The digital TV here sucks too... The choice is:
Great TV quality, restricted channels. (courtesy of France and England being so close, cross interference likely)
Bad TV quality, loads of channels.
Now it seems that the digital stream has been implemented into the analogue frequency so they now appear the same. Uncompressed images of WIN.

I'm curious whats going to happen with the broadcast frequencies now, here in the states.

They auctioned off the rights last year some time, wasnt it? It was pretty big because I know google lobbied and won to require that anything used through it be open source. And I forgot who bought the biggest chunk, I think it was Verizon? But I think I remember reading that UHF spectrum could make for some interesting new cellular technologies.

All broadcasters originating from Washington DC have switched over to digital.

Say your last thoughts on DTV here.