Yay! It's over... for now.

[vakkotaur]

According to another journal, they're finally over, but they'll return like a resistant infection in 2010. Of course it's still not a good idea to turn on broadcast television as there is soon to be a political convention, followed by another political convention. And then campaign commercials and campaign coverage (for TV values of...) ad nauseum. Followed by election coverage, analysis, and the usual nonsense. By Feb 17 (the big US analog TV switch off) it might be a relief to have NTSC broadcasting go away.

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[yakko.livejournal.com]

I'd never realized the Olympics existed until Lake Placid - 1980. And for a long time after that, when I heard "olympics," I thought "snow skiing, figure skating, bobsledding..."

I managed to go the two weeks without being exposed to more than about 10 minutes of the summer games.

2009-02-17 is when -over-the-air broadcasts- in NTSC stop in the USA. Canada uses NTSC as well, so may have over-the-air broadcasts in NTSC beyond our cutover. These will be cut over to ATSC format and require HDTV tuners and antennas to pull off the air. I don't think cable or satellite operators will cut over from NTSC to ATSC at that point -- they certainly aren't obligated to.