All day digital TV test in Hawaii

For billso.com read­ers who live in Hawaii and use tele­vi­sion anten­nas for their recep­tion, today (Mon­day, 15 Decem­ber 2008) is a great oppor­tu­nity to test your tele­vi­sions for the upcom­ing dig­i­tal con­ver­sion. Just tune into chan­nel 9 between 4:30 am and 10:30 pm.

If a crawl appears on the bot­tom of your screen, you’ll need to get a con­verter box, or sub­scribe to cable or satel­lite ser­vice. If you already have cable or satel­lite ser­vice and you see that warn­ing crawl, you may need a replace­ment con­verter box from your tele­vi­sion provider.

While most of the mainland’s broad­cast­ers will switch to DTV on 17 Feb­ru­ary 2009, almost all of the state of Hawaii will switch on 15 Jan­u­ary 2009. View­ers on Kauai will con­tinue to receive ana­log broad­casts from the low-power sta­tions on their island, with a dig­i­tal con­ver­sion sched­uled at a later date.

See KGMB9 to begin dig­i­tal TV test­ing on Mon­day in the Hon­olulu Adver­tiser for more information.

Related posts and pages on billso.com

• Dig­i­tal television
• 31 May 2008: Adver­tis­ers wor­ried about dig­i­tal tele­vi­sion conversion
• 16 May 2008: Want to test your dig­i­tal tele­vi­sion in Hawaii?
• 25 March 2008: Dig­i­tal TV is coming
• 18 Jan­u­ary 2008: Dig­i­tal TV and busi­ness models
• 12 Novem­ber 2007: I want a bet­ter tele­vi­sion — but it’s not ready yet
• 12 Sep­tem­ber 2007: The Google Phone and the iPhone – both look­ing for soft­ware and spectrum
• 5 July 2004: San Diego Padres promote HDTV

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