As Senate Democrats have worked hard to pass the legislation requested by President Obama to postpone the DTV transition until June, Republicans have been working on legislation of their own. Today a bill was introduced by Congressman Joe Barton of Texas that would provide an additional $250 million to the DTV voucher program. The program, which provides voucher cards to be redeemed for ... [ read the full article ]
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haha! i was thinking the same thing! $250m could be spent on so much more like corporate jets n such! i mean we have to remember that there are corporate Americans needing jets to Hawaii n stuff after they get their bailout!
I will have to put up a tower to receive more than one channel with digital TV. With analog TV I can receive about 8 channels. The next thing that will happen is that a new converter box will be required that will be pay per view.
The messed up the campaign by putting Converter Box commercials on cable tv. Bunch of idiots. The commercials shoud say "if you have rabbit ears on your tv, or an antenna on your roof, you need this. If you have cable or sat tv, then you are fine." done.
Only 2% of the US population was not prepared for the analog cut-off. That does not seem like a sufficient reason to incur the high cost of a postponement.
Originally posted by wdtv: The messed up the campaign by putting Converter Box commercials on cable tv. Bunch of idiots. The commercials shoud say "if you have rabbit ears on your tv, or an antenna on your roof, you need this. If you have cable or sat tv, then you are fine." done.
Thanks to the Democrats for another nightmare In many areas of the country TV stations are already in the middle of their final engineering transition. Some are operating at reduced power on their Analog or temporary digital channels as they finish construction of the transmitter for their permanent digital channel. Some have even had to shut down the temporary digital channel that was forced on them by our government in order to finish their permanent digital facility. Many stations and their viewers are experiencing severe interference problems as a result of digital transmitters located too close to older analog stations. Now we have stations with new transmitters that they can't turn on without interfering with even more stations in neighboring areas. As a result all of us will have to suffer for 3 month for the benefit of that small percentage of people who will still procrastinate until after the last minute.
