{"id":62,"date":"2007-10-02T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T09:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/analog-tv-is-sooo-1990\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:26:23","slug":"analog-tv-is-sooo-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/analog-tv-is-sooo-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog TV is sooo 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, you losers out there in the rest of the world: we no longer do analog terrestrial TV broadcasting in Sweden. At October 15 2007 the last parts of Sweden go DVB-T.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, some dinosaurs are said to still get analog TV over their <a href=\"http:\/\/comhem.se\/portal\/comhem\/tv_analog_betaltv\">cable networks<\/a> but I&#8217;m sure they will be extinct soon enough..)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sagem 64140T\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sagem200.gif\" alt=\"Sagem 64140T\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"5\" \/>The upsides with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DVB\">DVB<\/a> for a casual TV user such as myself, is the built-in standard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_program_guide\">EPG<\/a> and the fact that the time is sent to allow &#8220;terminals&#8221; to sync and stay accurate easily. It would be even better if the <a href=\"http:\/\/teracom.se\/\">Swedish broadcasters<\/a> would a) send program data for more days ahead than what they currently do (currently they only provide roughly 48 hours ahead) b) fill in more details in the meta data about the programs &#8211; right now a film or a TV show can be explained as &#8220;American movie&#8221; or &#8220;drama&#8221; with no further explanation.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, a little side-note. In my house-hold we switched to digital early this spring with the Stockholm area switched off analog and not long after the switch I one day noticed how my EPG would show all the Swedish \u00e5\u00e4\u00f6 letters in a funny way (and my box uses the name of the show for recorded files so they ended up looking funny as well). It looked exactly like they were UTF-8 encoded suddenly &#8211; but assumed a more regular character set like iso8859-1 or similar. I filed a bug report to Teracom, and I don&#8217;t know if I had any impact at all but in a day or two the bug was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, you losers out there in the rest of the world: we no longer do analog terrestrial TV broadcasting in Sweden. At October 15 2007 the last parts of Sweden go DVB-T. (Yes, some dinosaurs are said to still get analog TV over their cable networks but I&#8217;m sure they will be extinct soon enough..) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/analog-tv-is-sooo-1990\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Analog TV is sooo 1990<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10008,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/10008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}