Results tagged “digitaltv”

The Digital TV Transition hasn't been hurting for attention over the last year. Not only is the federally funded converter box coupon program surely one of the most well-publicized government subsidies ever created (think about it—have you ever seen prime-time TV commercials advertising Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants?), but recently Congress decided it hadn't been publicized enough, and extended the deadline for broadcasters to switch to entirely digital feeds from February 17 to June 12.

Quick, when I say "cable service in the District," what springs to mind? Odds are, you're thinking Comcast's overall ineptitude and Verizon's never-ending quest to get FiOS into D.C.'s living rooms. But while there's little doubt that said topics represent the lion's share of the headlines, Washingtonians may tend to forget that region's less monopolistic cable operators have just as many foibles. According to postings on the Cleveland Park listserv, there are a group of people who certainly didn't miss an issue with one of those smaller operators, RCN: some analog subscribers were experiencing a digital blizzard of white snow on their televisions, well before the notorious February 17 drop dead date.