{"id":400,"date":"2009-02-17T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T06:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-02-17T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T06:48:48","slug":"last-day-of-analog-tv-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/last-day-of-analog-tv-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; last day of analog TV broadcast? &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~2.5mb<br \/>\nDouble click to play (yes &#8230; it&#8217;s really just static):<br \/>\n[qt:\/blog\/movies\/static.mov \/blog\/movies\/static_poster.mov 480 270]<\/p>\n<p>Ok &#8230; so they extended the deadline and analog TV may stay around for a few more months for some people.  I wrote a little article on Digital Television last year I thought I would re-post on the eve of the first death of analog TV here in the US.<\/p>\n<p>You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/the-cosmic-mistake-and-digital-television\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are slowly directing more and more of their communications back at Earth and leaking less and less into the surrounding universe.  Maybe that&#8217;s good.  Maybe we&#8217;re polluting the airwaves in our Galactic neighborhood less.  <\/p>\n<p>Or &#8230; perhaps we&#8217;re turning the porch light off and any neighbors passing by won&#8217;t stop for a visit.  Analog radio and television signals would be fairly easy to receive and decipher.  I&#8217;m not so sure anyone else in the Galaxy can decode MPEG streams.  What the F does a digital signal look or sound like with no processing?  Not so intelligent I&#8217;m guessing.<\/p>\n<p>SETI has been searching for intelligent life by trying to find intelligible signals in the cosmic static.  If everyone out there has gone digital &#8230; we may never hook up the right HD converter box to figure out what they&#8217;re saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~2.5mb Double click to play (yes &#8230; it&#8217;s really just static): [qt:\/blog\/movies\/static.mov \/blog\/movies\/static_poster.mov 480 270] Ok &#8230; so they extended the deadline and analog TV may stay around for a few more months for some people. I wrote a little &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/last-day-of-analog-tv-broadcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; last day of analog TV broadcast? &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[502,149,501],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","tag-analog-broadcast","tag-digital-television","tag-hd-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}