Newbie tuner/hardware questions

[flyswatta]

And when the 2009 switch over happens you will need to do that again because most of the stations are going to switch the digital broadcasts over to the old analog broad cast freq's. Right now almost all digital stations are broadcasted in the uhf band but will move back to the vhf after the switch over.

Nice to know - I wasn't aware of that. I thought I'd read somewhere about Google trying to buy the frequency range that analog is broadcasting on now.

[zed]

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And when the 2009 switch over happens you will need to do that again because most of the stations are going to switch the digital broadcasts over to the old analog broad cast freq's. Right now almost all digital stations are broadcasted in the uhf band but will move back to the vhf after the switch over.

I don't think that's correct. Please cite a source...

[bogyver]

I dont have a direct source, I have read a lot of stuff on DTV and have seen a lot of info stating that channels, not all, would be returning to there vhf freqs if they had vhf for analog.
I did a search to find a source, I found a lot of stations stating that they would be going back to their vhf freq and also found a few sources that list info about why some are changing back and also that some are going to move to completely differnt freqs due to the spectrum auction

http://dtvfacts.com/latest/497/tv-channels-move/
http://dtvfacts.com/latest/508/vhf-dtv-r.../#more-508
http://www.highdefforum.com/showthread.php?t=55386 bottom of the page about the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
Mind you this is for US only