11th June 2010, 9:55 PM
Well, not JUST for movies and games, but a number of my own friends are perfectly fine with antenna, especially now that the signal is awesome thanks to the digital switch. I guess my numbers are woefully out of date. I had been going on what I had heard back in the 1990's or so. I knew people had been getting online at a far greater rate, just not that cable uptake had been going strong. Hadn't expected that at all.
At any rate, my solution was merely one to offer those who would want to listen to stations that were on the AM band. If no one wants to bother with it, so much the better! Either way, it doesn't change the fact that AM is a massive chunk of bandwidth to waste. Weltall seems to agree with me there, ABF, I'm not sure why you consider it worth keeping around. Ditch AM right now with a few years to give AM stations time to switch, and then over the next few decades (a lot changes in the span of decades ABF), start phasing out FM as well. If people have decades to get digital tuners by then, I don't have much sympathy for them when the time comes to pull the plug there too. It'll be worth it in the long run.
At any rate, my solution was merely one to offer those who would want to listen to stations that were on the AM band. If no one wants to bother with it, so much the better! Either way, it doesn't change the fact that AM is a massive chunk of bandwidth to waste. Weltall seems to agree with me there, ABF, I'm not sure why you consider it worth keeping around. Ditch AM right now with a few years to give AM stations time to switch, and then over the next few decades (a lot changes in the span of decades ABF), start phasing out FM as well. If people have decades to get digital tuners by then, I don't have much sympathy for them when the time comes to pull the plug there too. It'll be worth it in the long run.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)