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Tell Us About Your DTV Transition Day
Will TV watchers go berserk in the streets on June 12, 2009, or will the whole thing be as uneventful as Y2k? Share your D-Day stories!
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June 11, 2009 | by Julie Jacobson

When analog goes dark on June 12, 2009, will it be as anticlimactic as Y2k or will weird stuff happen?

Will antenna sales and installations surge, as Zip Express expects?

Will people cancel cable and satellite subscriptions en masse? About 58% of consumers say they would likely drop their service if they could get free over-the-air HDTV.

Will some 2.8 million unprepared consumers flock to A/V retailers to buy new sets when the reality of DTV Day sets in?

Will manufacturers and A/V dealers be flooded with customer service calls?

Will the DTV Transition ads finally cease?!

In the Comments section below, let us know how your day is going!

Meanwhile, we’re headed to our cabin in the remote town of Brandon, Minn., where we will have no choice but to watch Season 4 of Weeds on a Netflix DVD.



Julie Jacobson - Editor, Electronic House; Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is editor of Electronic House and editor-at-large for CE Pro magazine, the trade magazine for home technology. She co-founded parent company EH Publishing in 1994.



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Comments (19) Most recent displayed first.
Posted by skip  on  06/13/09  at  11:16 AM

antenna input
just to be safe i used my tv menu to erase all channels(you can’t add channels like my analog tv could). then i scanned. all channels were where they were previously. the fcc(or someother) site listed my local channels and indicated their new channel assignments.
i beleve this has been a conspiracy from the electronics industry and govment to sell higher tech gadgets not to free up airwaves.

Posted by Julie Jacobson  on  06/13/09  at  09:20 AM

@R, thanks for the description. A little nerdy but cool!

Posted by R. Garcia  on  06/13/09  at  12:23 AM

The transition went pretty smooth here in Chicago. I stayed up ‘till midnight to watch it happen. WCIU gave a guided tour of their facilities and they did a countdown as they shutdown the transmitter. Analog Channel 26 went offline precisely at midnight. About 10 seconds later most of the other channels also went offline. Well, I got to witness an epoch in the history of television. Since I bought a DTV receiver for my computer early this year I was well prepared for the transition. And now I can find another use for my makeshift antenna that consists of: a car radio antenna I found in a parking lot, a 3 foot coaxial cable, and a 4 inch wire to connect the afore mentioned items. LOL   In the words of Edward R. Murrow, “Good night, and good luck.”

Posted by Kenneth Dunstone  on  06/12/09  at  09:08 PM

NBC ended up putting a standard def signal up on the local CBS affiliate subchannel (which, thankfully, they also own). Getting to watch after all!

Posted by Jared  on  06/12/09  at  08:32 PM

Hello Out There in Tv Land.Transition Day Went Off
With Out A Hitch Here In The Land Of Oz.


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