Al's Blog-o-Sphere

On February 17, 2009 all full-power broadcast television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting on analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. Digital broadcasting will allow stations to offer improved picture and sound quality and additional channels.

My prediction, should you care, is this will be the beginning of the end of over-the-air Television.

Oh, sure, I’ve seen Digital TV. I have one. I have it connected to a full-sized, rotating antenna. It takes that much to get it to work.

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and we can get back to normal TV viewing: The Democratic National Convention.

Snore….

Occasionally, I spout off about something that bothers me here. Really, I do. Well, alright, that’s about all I do here. This is another of those times.

I have to talk about something that is undoubtedly one of the most serious problems our modern society faces, if not in magnitude, at least in sheer ubiquity. While not a large problem, it’s tenacity as it keeps coming back and back to haunt me makes it irritating on a grand scale.

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Sometimes, two things that ordinarily, wouldn’t draw a second thought come together in a way that approaches the surreal. I had that experience today.

I was watching the pre-game show before the Buffalo Bills game at Indianapolis. They played a commercial, maybe you’ve seen it, that features a number of Bills fans in full game-day paraphernalia against a black background expressing their love of the Bills. It’s supposed to make you want to run out and buy tickets, I suppose. [dewplayer:http://gritzmacher.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/anthony-casuccio-joe-dzialak-bills-fan-tribute.mp3] Continue Reading…