What is the government doing? They keep delaying the switch to digital TV... Well, I know that they aren't the ones to put all the blame on, a lot of it's the people who saw free money from the government and didn't need a converter box. The other part is the people who didn't get a converter for one reason or another. And I don't really feel that sorry for them. There are other ways to get TV, they can rent DVDs from the library of their favorite TV shows, I'm sure there are some they haven't seen yet, and will be able to live for a few weeks/months until the government gets them a $40 coupon that someone got and let expire. (Because they have money to pay for the electricity to run the TV, and to buy a TV, buy don't want to spend the money on a converter box that probably would only cost $10-$20 if they knew the government wasn't handing out $40 checks). Then again, maybe they should be advertising HDTVs and reminding people that they can get a better TV signal if they get a 1080p TV for $500.
There is a small group of people who would lose channels, but I think they might come in once the digital signal is full strength.
Is there something I'm missing here? Is there some other reason they don't want to turn off the analog signals? Maybe they want to wait until the summer so they can tell the people to go outside and play, or that there is nothing good on TV in the summer anyways, save your money up...
(If Obama wanted to win support from the people he should have told them that all shows had to be in HD. I would be for that by June 12th.)
Senate passes bill to delay digital TV switch - Yahoo! News