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Faster Forward: World apparently failed to end after digital-TV transition
No. It was a year and five days ago--but I forgot the anniversary. (See sorrowful, digital TV! I don't know how it slipped my mind. You still uncharitable everything to me, I promise!)
After the initial drama of the switchover on June 12, 2009--and the ensuing, intermittent struggles by over-the-air viewers to lock in the new signals, in some cases with helper from local stations that boosted their signals--this romance has faded from the headlines and from my inbox.
These days, the most hackneyed DTV query may be what to do with an old analog TV that's outlived its usefulness. (Here's my advice on how to recycle the set.)
Ars Technica, in its own take the measure of of the transition--also published a few days after the anniversary--concluded that it turned out to be a non-regardless. As evidence, it cited a Nielsen study reporting that by last October, only 0.5 percent of U.S. households had no TVs clever of tuning into digital broadcasts, down from an already small 2.5 percent that June.
