Have you tested that this works when there is a storm system between you and the transmitters? Signal loss is much higher in saturated air (think rain) than unsaturated air.

The last day permissible for analog television broadcasts from full power stations was December 31, 2006 before it got changed by a different act of congress to February 17, 2009.

Because the transition plans require the same number of spots and/or crawls on digital services explaining the impending shutoff that they do on the analog, and even more in some cases.

I'd support this except for a few key issues (you clearly haven't thought this out):
1) Reds in NTSC are either illegal (out of gamut) or very close to black (bad for black and white sets)
2) solid color borders and constant flashing cause bandwidth issues to crop up, making the content illegible
3) Part of the issue with delaying the shut-off is that MANY full-power TV transmitters are on their last legs and new parts are unavailable.
4) You don't need the "If you did not expect this, " part.
5) You are stupid.

Actually, Digital has a wider reach with the same power output which is why most stations have had power greatly reduced from their analog to their digital transmitters. Unfortunately, DTV is very susceptible to multipath (you see this as "ghosting" in analog, with a low-grade digital receiver, you see this as "no signal") and in many places, with the lower power required for interference prevention with neighbors, the coverage becomes reduced.

Actually, you can get the HDTV channel, your box will just downconvert it.

Actually, the transmitter site is quite a place, and you can get static-free reception quite a ways away from one too.

Define full-bandwidth. MPEG-2 is compressed, OTA or otherwise.

They recompress it for their digital service tiers because they cannot easily simply retransmit the inputted MPEG stream. While it is possible, it becomes an issue of signal management and converting to baseband and recompressing is easier than playing with MPEG streams.

Most ATSC encoders and Muxers offer a variety of encoding and encryption options. Broadcasters could broadcast signals that are not watchable or listenable by viewers, but they would be blocking almost all viewers (broadcast equipment with the proper keys could still decode it).

Not all markets have had digital stations for this long. North America is quite unique in the high number of individual broadcast areas (we call them markets) and the nations of this continent have had logistical nightmares trying to arrange frequencies.

They make wonderful little boxes that you can plug a real HDD in and plug a memory card in and it will transfer the data from the card to the HDD... or you can just use your computer when you return home. I personally just use one card per device and when the portions it writes get full, that data gets archived and wiped from the card.

Almost all of the keyboards listed cost well over $80.

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Typed on my Model-M

100 REM TASK 1
110 LPRINT CHR$(33); "hello world"; CHR$(33); CHR$(13); CHR$(12);
200 REM TASK 2
210 LPRINT CHR$(33); "what is your name?"; CHR$(33); CHR$(13); CHR$(10);
220 INPUT N$
230 LPRINT N$; CHR$(13); CHR$(12);
300 REM TASK 3
310 LPRINT CHR$(33); "give me a number to square:"; CHR$(33); CHR$(13); CHR$(10);
320 INPUT I
330 S = I * I
340 LPRINT S; CHR$(13); CHR$(12);

You said you wanted it printed, right?