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The Last Day of Analog TV Broadcasting – June 12, 2009
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That was the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen.
*cuts out to blue*
AAAAHHHHHHWWW
That was interesting to watch, and difficult to believe it was 14yrs ago.
I hope they’re still friends and stay in touch
I know you all dont have much time, it happens on min 1:03, YW!
“Now you can see her horseface in digital pixels”
Poor Sarah Jessica Parker
I thought Quinten Tarantino was busy making Inglorious Basterds in 2009 and not watching the last analog broadcast with Eddie Munson.
That was epic!! Poor lonely tvs, still hooked up out there with nothing to watch.
I worked at a local NBC affiliate in 2009 and let me tell you, this was quite an ordeal
They ended up having to give free digital tuner antennas away to people who weren’t ready even though there were months of warning
Interestingly enough June of 2009 is when my family stopped watching any kind of broadcast/Cable TV ever.
We had just moved to a new state and were too poor to pay for cable anymore, so we cut it. We didn’t have a tuner or anything, so we didn’t watch any broadcast TV either. We just watched our DVDs.
Can’t say I miss TV and it’s commercials. Here we are, 14 years later and still no programing TV.
Reminds me when AOL Instant Messenger stopped their servers. A bunch of friends and I were in a chat as we counted down the time until we were disconnected. It took time to propagate and my friends started to drop off every few minutes. My account was the last one to go. Sad moment but a fun way to celebrate the end
Biggest loss w switch to digital is slow as fuck channel surfing, and there being binary get the channel or you don’t with digital antennas. Back in the day with analogue you’d get like 20 channels w rabbit ears , prob half coming in perfect and the rest good enough with a little fuzz. And you could cycle through like a station every second, or faster, they’d instantly load. Now over the air you’re lucky to get a handful of stations and it takes a good 2-3 secs for each station to load. Totally killed yhe channel surfing experience. This would be a good topic to bring up in those recurring “what things from your childhood are gone” instead of the constantly recurring posts about dial up modems.
Back in my day, when you pushed a button, the stuff actually happened at that very moment. No buffering, no framerate issues, no desynced audio…
Smartasses
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Exactly he kind of shit I could see me and my friends doing it we were there age at the time
That basement looks awesome
That guy is dressed like its the 80s not 2009.
There’s still analog signals, you just need an antenna.
I just looked up the UK dates. Weirdly they turned off each area at different times. And they did a brownout where they turned off BBC 2 first. Some areas stopped in 2005 but London was still getting it in some areas until 2012.
Also the day Julien K released the album Death to Analog.
You really think it’d super important stuff that matters but this type of video is the cool shit.
Taking a polaroid of the occasion is just the icing on the cake.
Ah yes! Khaki Cargo shorts and ankle socks. I remember those days well.
man you guys are rich. crt tvs back then that big were fucking expensive
I wish I could upvote this twice. Everything about it is great.
Do kids still do this and go hangout after school at a friend’s house and watch tv? Those were good times
So seriously the United States of America was the last country to stop analog signals?
This might be a contender for the best video on the internet. It should definitely be included in history classes.
Women: “He’s probably with another girl.”
The Boys:
I kinda understand their excitement. I remember there were tons of commercials and PSAs warning people with CRT’s to buy converter boxes for a solid year and a half before this happened.
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Also, for perspective, this video was recorded 15 days before Michael Jackson passed away.
These guys are annoying
Was the video ruined for anyone else when he started calling SJP a horse face? Dude carefully planned this whole thing out perfectly then made fun of a wildly successful actress that he couldn’t even remember the name of.
The date says 2009 but the basement says 1975
This is Chicago! Channel 50 being UPN, 9 was WGN, 26 was WCIU, 32 was FOX
I find it funny how americans have heaps of 4-letter callsigns for their tv channels.
Here its just a brand name like “One” “2”, “Thr=e”, “Prime”, “Bravo”, “Discovery” etc
I wonder what these guys are up to today. How have their lives changed since the analog switchoff?
Bunch of fucking nerds, I love them
I worked at the start of Digital TV back in 1998. I told my friends down the pub they would all need to buy new TV sets and they did not believe me at all.
On reflection Sex in the City is the perfect choice although I hate the programme is was quintessentially 2009 era. Those guys fashions are of the era too.
What a fantastic video! Thanks, OP!
I was at our transmitter site for the big switch off. I’ll try and dig up the pictures.
There were still analog TV stations up until a few years ago. Many of them were really just [FM radio stations masquerading as TV stations.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_6_radio_stations_in_the_United_States)
Even by 2009 standards that kid had an old TV..
My parents had a 65″ 16:9 rear projector back in 2003 that had 1080 resolution
That was cool AF.