That's what I was thinking, too. For a lot of viewers this is probably the first substantial advertising of the DTV transition they've seen.
It will be interesting to see how many people end up sticking with OTA once the transition is complete. I tried going with OTA for a while for my HD setup, but it simply wasn't reliable enough, even with high-end antennas properly aimed. I couldn't have friends over to enjoy a football game, for example, because I couldn't predict how much picture breakup there would be. I'm guessing a lot of cable/ DirecTV/FIOS subscriptions will be purchased once people see the digital "cliff effect" in all its glory.
On Sep 12, 2007, at Wednesday, September 12, 200712:45 PM, Tom Barry wrote:
That's clever. Now when folks have trouble with OTA reception it can all be blamed upon unlicensed devices. Though I guess it does inadvertently begin advertising the OTA transition, sort of.
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