Brenda Ann wrote:
"SFTV_troy"

The analog FM is still there. So too are the websites, so rural
listeners can stream them off the internet. Heck, I listen to
stations in my hometown, and I'm currently 1000 miles away, just via
streaming.

Streaming is not DX. ...

Yes it is. It's listening to a station from a Distant location.


Also, where do you think these rural listeners are
going to get broadband internet access that would
allow them to listen to these streams?

I use my phone line when I'm at home.






BTW analog TVs are not dead. I've got a digital tuner attached to
mine, which means the set will die a natural death of old age. It's
not been wasted.

Try connecting one of those set-top boxes to your portable TV at the beach,
or out camping.. I am not happy (nor is anyone else in the situation) with
having a relatively expensive pocket portable TV obsoleted and useless.

Yeah. Things were better during the 50s. I wish we could reverse
progress and go back to the blurry, barely-visible black-n-white.
And no FM.

/end sarcasm

I sold my portable on ebay. I hadn't used it for ten years, and so
saw no reason to keep it. I kept the 2nd one for watching analog
cable upstairs, and thus no need for a D-to-A converter box.



And has anyone considered the long term
ecological repercussions of having to dispose
of all these millions of now useless devices?

Trivial compared to the amount of trash generated from food
packaging. By volume I'd estimate a thrown-away VCR or Cassette
player is less than 1% the volume generated by food boxes, plastic
wrap, and containers.