flipping a switch
Jeeze . . . I haven't heard that phrase in a long time. Back when HDTV was just starting out, this used to happen all the time.
I was on a different forum then and there used to be tons of threads with hundreds of posts about people calling the engineer at the local "HD" station and telling him to "flip the switch" cause the program wasn't in HD.
There were about 20 of us in the Brooklyn, Queens and Western Nassau (Long Island) area's of NY that were helping PBS get their HD broadcast fine tuned.
First it took about an hour just to get all of us on a telephone link (20 into 1). Then when the engineer "flipped the switch" you heard a big cheer from the phone . . .until one guy is yelling "I don't see anything"
(he was on the wrong channel).
Then they started the tuning process and what woulf happen was if it went to far we in Long Island got the signal . . .but the people in Queens lost it (transmitter was in Brooklyn).
Well after about 3 hours on the phone they finally got it to a point where all of us could get PBS HD.
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