Why can’t ABC get a high def station to C-Ville. On the cable front they first announced it two years ago and many got HD recorders when they pre-ordered. Those recorders are still useless, since the cable has decided not to waste their time in this shitty hell hole of a village.
The ABC station in Richmond can’t seem to keep their HDTV broadcast tower in one piece so the signal is around on some days, and gone on many others. It feels like being in Cuba during the summertime and hoping you can get some electricity for two hours every third day.
The local station is three watts, and won’t be doing HD until it is mandatory by federal rules. Unfortunately, that is never at this point. Stations do have to go digital by 2009, but that is not necessarily HD. The local ABC won’t be doing that until the day it is law.
Now, it would be great to get ABC on satellite, but the local stations, and one somewhere in the fricking hills/garbage dump of VA (aka Harrisonburg or something like that), won’t grant permission — even though there is a mountain between C-Ville and that dump and no signal makes it to our own dump.
The friendly local stations have a lovely statement on their web site that basically calls every local person a pile of scum that is not worth a dime. It says (paraphrased of course):
Remember:
1) Waivers are only granted to ‘unabomber-like’ people that live at least 500 miles from any TV station.
2) Waivers are not considered or granted for people that want a High Definition signal
3) Calling the station is not the right procedure, because you local customers are little piles of crap. Don’t call us, we really don’t care about you. We won’t grant you a waiver. No matter what. You are crap.
I’d love to watch a bit of World Cup Soccer, but I can’t. It is in some hideous low def stretched picture that can’t be watched by anyone that has ever seen a high def picture, or anyone that has been at a soccer game, or even stepped outside their house and looked at the world. It is miserable. As is this primitive stone-age village.
The locals must not care at all about the World Cup. I guess they are too busy sharpening spears so they can hunt a mammoth.
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Sometimes I think your very valid points would be made much better if you didn’t lay on the extra bit of vitriol. Understand that the local television stations would love to offer hi-def if they could, but they’re operating under rules that are very hard to change. I understand your frustration, but you’re not helping out your cause very much.
Understand that the local television stations would love to offer hi-def if they could…
I want what you’re smoking, dude.
Local stations have much more control than you might think…!
At a minimum the could go digital. Anyone with a HDTV has t watch apicture that has been switched from High def digital to analog then reconverted to digital.
It was unwatchable for me on my flat panel, that I expressly purchased for HD signals that ABC has been hooting about forever. I cannot even pick up a signal on my rabbit ears for the TV.
No wonder they only had about 350 people watching their news show.
Anon said, “Sometimes I think your very valid points would be made much better if you didn’t lay on the extra bit of vitriol.”
Does it really matter around here? Did the UVA sit in try to make a point without vitriol? Trying to make valid points here in this village is a giant boondoggle.
As for local stations having power, not here in VA. We are the true bottom of the barrel for TV viewing. People here still use morse code to transmit data, and hand mail to a guy on a horse. We rank 185 out of 210 cities with television. At least we moved up from 186 last year. Now that is progress. Hard to believe we beat Alpena, Michigan. Wow.
Stations here have no money, primarily due to the fact that there is no advertising revenue. If we had an economy other than the Crapshaw, UVA, and the military maybe there would be some revenue. Another example of misery operating with no budget is the Daily Regress. Oy.