Hawaiian analog TV shutoff to come early, saving God’s creatures
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Technological progress marches forward, assimilating all those who resist — we know this well in our line of work, but sometimes you’ve got to stand up and state, “The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!” Take the digital TV transition in the United Says for example: all the analog Television signals will be shut off in February. It won’t be pretty, but it’ll be progress. Hawaii, though, has a dilemma: it just so happens that the analog towers that’ll be torn down are awfully close to the nests of the state’s cute and endangered petrel birds, whose nesting season also occurs in February. Hence Hawaii’s digital switch will occur a month early on January 15th, so you 17,000 affected Hawaiians have that much less time to grab converter boxes, or you’ll end up watching the next season of Lost in person on your beautiful beaches instead of your ancient tube TVs.
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Hawaiian analog TV shutoff to come early, saving God’s creatures originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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