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Yeah; I guess the analog airwaves are quiet in the States since--what, last month?
I think the digital shift is overall pretty cool, especially as lower-power transmitters can be used and higher-bandwidth can be harnessed, potentially opening the door for more community-generated content.
I kinda wonder how this is going to work here in Japan, however. In order to receive digital broadcasts, your TV (or receiver) needs a B-CAS card (a smartcard that decrypts the HDTV signal). Otherwise, your TV will be pulling in nothing but static. In order to get a card, you have to give quite a bit of information to B-CAS, including the make/model of your TV, and your name/address/etc.
Naturally, conspiracy-theory-minded-me has been thinking: Will NHK simply bide its time in collecting fees, wait ‘til 2011, then knock on the doors of people who’ve applied for the B-CAS card (as they’ve all but admitted to having a TV)? If you refuse to pay the NHK fee, will they simply turn your card’s subscription off until you fork over the yen?
I think the digital shift is overall pretty cool, especially as lower-power transmitters can be used and higher-bandwidth can be harnessed, potentially opening the door for more community-generated content.
I kinda wonder how this is going to work here in Japan, however. In order to receive digital broadcasts, your TV (or receiver) needs a B-CAS card (a smartcard that decrypts the HDTV signal). Otherwise, your TV will be pulling in nothing but static. In order to get a card, you have to give quite a bit of information to B-CAS, including the make/model of your TV, and your name/address/etc.
Naturally, conspiracy-theory-minded-me has been thinking: Will NHK simply bide its time in collecting fees, wait ‘til 2011, then knock on the doors of people who’ve applied for the B-CAS card (as they’ve all but admitted to having a TV)? If you refuse to pay the NHK fee, will they simply turn your card’s subscription off until you fork over the yen?
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Actually, even if you applied for the B-CAS card, NHK still couldn't legally force you to pay the fee. The law doesn't state that you have to pay the fee just because you have a TV, but rather those that are able to receive the NHK broadcast. So even if you have a TV, but only use it for movies or video games and never hook it up to an antenna, then they cannot legally force you to pay anything. Of course the NHK collectors being the rats that they are, will want confirmation of this, and ask to see your TV turned on to prove it, but you don't legally have to do this either. Of course, then they can technically also get you if you have a TV equipped mobile phone.
Back to the topic at hand, at least Japan is giving everybody fair warning when the switch is to take place, and free-dial phone numbers that you can call for more info. My only concern is whether the digital TV signal will be able to reach a greater audience, or if it will cut off the remote villages and force those people to buy satellite dishes or whatever. Right now in the Kanto area, there are places where I can't get a signal for my mobile phone TV. I guess theoretically the new Sky Tower going up in Asakusa will cover most of Kanto, but I wonder what the regional areas are doing to make sure everybody is covered. I know it's not a public right to have TV, but there sure will be a lot of pissed off people if they don't cover everybody.
Sky Tower website:
http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/english/
The extra content is cool and all, but I just hope that it won't turn into all "extra" advertisements. Some of the mobile TV extra content is really annoying that way. If they can make it easy enough for everybody to understand, possibly they can make it into real time surveys and what not, so you don't have to log onto a different site from your computer or mobile, or have to call up a phone number to participate.
Actually, even if you applied for the B-CAS card, NHK still couldn't legally force you to pay the fee. The law doesn't state that you have to pay the fee just because you have a TV, but rather those that are able to receive the NHK broadcast. So even if you have a TV, but only use it for movies or video games and never hook it up to an antenna, then they cannot legally force you to pay anything. Of course the NHK collectors being the rats that they are, will want confirmation of this, and ask to see your TV turned on to prove it, but you don't legally have to do this either. Of course, then they can technically also get you if you have a TV equipped mobile phone.
Back to the topic at hand, at least Japan is giving everybody fair warning when the switch is to take place, and free-dial phone numbers that you can call for more info. My only concern is whether the digital TV signal will be able to reach a greater audience, or if it will cut off the remote villages and force those people to buy satellite dishes or whatever. Right now in the Kanto area, there are places where I can't get a signal for my mobile phone TV. I guess theoretically the new Sky Tower going up in Asakusa will cover most of Kanto, but I wonder what the regional areas are doing to make sure everybody is covered. I know it's not a public right to have TV, but there sure will be a lot of pissed off people if they don't cover everybody.
Sky Tower website:
http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/english/
The extra content is cool and all, but I just hope that it won't turn into all "extra" advertisements. Some of the mobile TV extra content is really annoying that way. If they can make it easy enough for everybody to understand, possibly they can make it into real time surveys and what not, so you don't have to log onto a different site from your computer or mobile, or have to call up a phone number to participate.
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Ostensibly, though, if you have a B-CAS card you will be able to receive the NHK fee, no? And while I know the law in its current state has no teeth, I wonder whether it'll be quietly changed and suddenly enforced with more vigor.
>The law doesn't state that you have to pay the fee just because
>you have a TV, but rather those that are able to receive the NHK
>broadcast. So even if you have a TV, but only use it for movies or
>video games and never hook it up to an antenna, then they cannot
>legally force you to pay anything.
Hence why I'm rather curious as to the ramifications of getting a B-CAS card. If you have a card, you are stating that you are able to receive the NHK broadcast...whether you actually receive the broadcast or not is another question. (Which, I suspect, is going to be one of the grey legal technicalities surrounding 1seg.)
As for the digital switchover: I think, as well as you, that the government is doing a fine job of getting the public informed, and I'm sure that we will see some innovative content coming in as well, like more TV-broadband connections and "smart" content.
Ostensibly, though, if you have a B-CAS card you will be able to receive the NHK fee, no? And while I know the law in its current state has no teeth, I wonder whether it'll be quietly changed and suddenly enforced with more vigor.
>The law doesn't state that you have to pay the fee just because
>you have a TV, but rather those that are able to receive the NHK
>broadcast. So even if you have a TV, but only use it for movies or
>video games and never hook it up to an antenna, then they cannot
>legally force you to pay anything.
Hence why I'm rather curious as to the ramifications of getting a B-CAS card. If you have a card, you are stating that you are able to receive the NHK broadcast...whether you actually receive the broadcast or not is another question. (Which, I suspect, is going to be one of the grey legal technicalities surrounding 1seg.)
As for the digital switchover: I think, as well as you, that the government is doing a fine job of getting the public informed, and I'm sure that we will see some innovative content coming in as well, like more TV-broadband connections and "smart" content.
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>Ostensibly, though, if you have a B-CAS card you will be able to receive
>the NHK fee, no?
That's where the Japanese law on this is very grey. Even if you don't hook up your B-CAS card, would they be able to force you to pay the fee? Say for example you only want the B-CAS card just in case of national emergencies or whatever. Personally, I liked the way the PBS channel in the US runs. It also runs on public funding, but they rely on donations from their viewers for funding. They also give out some cool gifts for people that donate a certain amount(s).
But, if Japan wants to make this transition as smooth as possible, they'll be keeping an eye on how other countries are currently handling their problems.
>Ostensibly, though, if you have a B-CAS card you will be able to receive
>the NHK fee, no?
That's where the Japanese law on this is very grey. Even if you don't hook up your B-CAS card, would they be able to force you to pay the fee? Say for example you only want the B-CAS card just in case of national emergencies or whatever. Personally, I liked the way the PBS channel in the US runs. It also runs on public funding, but they rely on donations from their viewers for funding. They also give out some cool gifts for people that donate a certain amount(s).
But, if Japan wants to make this transition as smooth as possible, they'll be keeping an eye on how other countries are currently handling their problems.
Hopefully it doesn't suck for you guys like it does here (Chicago). My house only has HD TVs (we ended up getting new ones because of the recent switch to all Digital), and honestly, at least where I live, it seems like a horrible mistake to have switched to digital.
If reception was bad with analog TV, then it would get fuzzy, or turn black and white, but you could still watch TV. And fixing it was easy cause you could obviously tell with the antenna if the picture was getting better or not.
With this Digital crap, we still have to use an antenna, and instead of losing color, the picture just disappears completely if reception is bad, and you get a message saying "Digital Signal is low." WTF is that?? And when signal is low, then the picture frequently changes between two seconds of TV show, and 10+ seconds of "Digital Signal is low." So this makes moving the antenna to fix the problem SUPER hard, because as soon as you move it and the picture comes on, you think you fixed it, only to have it go away 2 seconds later. Also annoying is that it takes much longer to switch channels than it ever did with analog TV.
Not to mention that I honestly have not seen an increase in picture quality from Analog TV, and actually in some cases I've found the Digital picture to be worse. I would just say maybe my neighborhood has bad reception (and since I don't have cable TV we don't have a dish), but I've found friends in other neighborhoods that feel the same way...
If reception was bad with analog TV, then it would get fuzzy, or turn black and white, but you could still watch TV. And fixing it was easy cause you could obviously tell with the antenna if the picture was getting better or not.
With this Digital crap, we still have to use an antenna, and instead of losing color, the picture just disappears completely if reception is bad, and you get a message saying "Digital Signal is low." WTF is that?? And when signal is low, then the picture frequently changes between two seconds of TV show, and 10+ seconds of "Digital Signal is low." So this makes moving the antenna to fix the problem SUPER hard, because as soon as you move it and the picture comes on, you think you fixed it, only to have it go away 2 seconds later. Also annoying is that it takes much longer to switch channels than it ever did with analog TV.
Not to mention that I honestly have not seen an increase in picture quality from Analog TV, and actually in some cases I've found the Digital picture to be worse. I would just say maybe my neighborhood has bad reception (and since I don't have cable TV we don't have a dish), but I've found friends in other neighborhoods that feel the same way...
Yes. Well, here's the way it works. The TV in the kitchen is the one that gives us the most problems. We had to buy a new digital antenna for it. It's horrible, and the problems I mentioned happen MOST likely with the TV that has the new antenna.
The TV we have in the family room, when we bought it (our first HDTV), we bought a new digital antenna for it. It was terrible, and had more problems thn the TV in the kitchen. So for that TV, we switched back to the old bunny ear antennas we were using to pick up analogue signal, and that actually worked BETTER than the digital antenna, and that TV works much better than the one in the kitchen. The only time we (sometimes) lose signal with that TV is if someone walks or stands DIRECTLY in front of the TV (like close enough to touch it, you know)?
The TV we have in the family room, when we bought it (our first HDTV), we bought a new digital antenna for it. It was terrible, and had more problems thn the TV in the kitchen. So for that TV, we switched back to the old bunny ear antennas we were using to pick up analogue signal, and that actually worked BETTER than the digital antenna, and that TV works much better than the one in the kitchen. The only time we (sometimes) lose signal with that TV is if someone walks or stands DIRECTLY in front of the TV (like close enough to touch it, you know)?
I love digital here in Australia. Stations are running extra channels alongside their main ones (Most of the time showing different programs, ABC1, ABC2 for example).
We also have 2 new channels (GO and ONE). Go is a general/normal channel whereas ONE shows sport 24 hours a day.
Overall I think Australia has done well with the digital changeover.
We also have 2 new channels (GO and ONE). Go is a general/normal channel whereas ONE shows sport 24 hours a day.
Overall I think Australia has done well with the digital changeover.
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