{"id":24,"date":"2007-05-25T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/2007\/05\/25\/tv-warning\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:49:51","slug":"television-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/television-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Television Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-111238 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Television Warning\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/TV_Color_bars-1-e1572307800298-75x75.jpg?resize=75%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Television Warning\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/TV_Color_bars-1-e1572307800298.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/TV_Color_bars-1-e1572307800298.jpg?resize=150%2C148&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/TV_Color_bars-1-e1572307800298.jpg?resize=768%2C759&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/TV_Color_bars-1-e1572307800298.jpg?w=769&amp;ssl=1 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/>As part of the migration to digital television,<strong> the FCC<\/strong> will require those who <strong>sell television<\/strong> receiving equipment w<strong>ithout digital tuners<\/strong> after May 25, 2007, to disclose at the point of sale that the <strong>equipment will require a converter box to receive over-the-air television<\/strong> after Feb. 17, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u201c<strong>a matter of public safety<\/strong> for consumers who rely on analog-only television\u201d to receive emergency information via television broadcast, the commission is requiring a transparent sticker with warning information be affixed to the screens of analog TV for sale or displayed separately \u201cimmediately adjacent\u201d to each analog TV for sale. For TV devices without displays, the alert must be \u201cin a prominent location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111018191508\/http:\/\/hraunfoss.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/FCC-07-69A1.doc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FCC Second Report and Order in the Second DTV Periodic Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If only they would warn us about tripe like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098772\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cop Rock<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0445865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martha Stewart Apprentice<\/a>&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCC requires sellers of TVs without digital tuners to disclose that the equipment will require a converter box to receive OTA television after Feb. 17, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3283,1536,940,3230,4,1295],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-3283","tag-fcc","tag-hdtv","tag-martha-stewart","tag-security","tag-television"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125575,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/125575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}