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The average Joe knows nothing about SKYWARN and will not learn anyting about it unless the media promotes it. The average Joe does know about TV. I still maintain that comparted to he average person's alternative, a weather radio, the weather information presented on TV is worth 1000 weather radios. Knowingly reducing the reliablitlity of mainstream severe weather reporting is criminal in my opinion. (As to the proposed mobile TV spec-it is just that, proposed, the technology does not exist yet-at least in mass production).
As to being free, DTV (in good weather) is free if you have the converter boxes. I watch it quite a bit.
As to AM/FM, they are pushing so-called HD radio here quite a bit, but I am not sure it is catching on. There is no law in this case and the problem with retrofitting the hundreds of millions of AM/FM radios in automobiles is almost insurmountable. I expect AM/FM to be around for a long time.
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06-02-2009, 03:27 PM
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