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Originally Posted by crich70
Well I don't know how well they work generally, but around here by next Sept. it's going all digital.
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I promise this is my last off-topic hijack.
They were supposed to go all digital almost 5 years ago. Like everyone else. The US digital terrestrial broadcast standard is ATSC. It's all digital, even the SD content, and it's picked up by an antenna just like always. If you really mean that somewhere in Wisconsin, there will be no more broadcast television after next September, please PM or VM me a link or more info because I want to know more.
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The paper book publishing industry isn't going to just vanish overnight certainly but gradually (I think) it will be phased out in its current form as more and more people go to the convenience of ebooks.
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Yes, as a sufficient number of people move to ebooks and stay there, that will dictate the speed of the industry transition. But I think it's sometimes too easy for those of us who have already "crossed over" to assume a certain trajectory.
And though I'm one of those who has crossed over to ebooks almost exclusively, I'm not yet feeling the same inevitability that some are feeling. In fact, I expect there will be a lot of people like xg4bx who go with ebooks for a while, then move back to mostly paper books.
I'm curious to see what the market will be down the road ten, twenty years from now for ebooks vs pbooks.