I looked on Newsweek’s website and found an article about the recent delay of all-digital television. I don’t see what the big deal is, but they say that viewers haven’t had enough time to get their converter boxes and therefore the stations would lose viewers. I say that if they haven’t got a converter box by now, (I mean seriously – they’ve been playing the “get ready for February 17th” commercials for months!) the only way that those people are going to switch is when they have to. Also, it’s not like the companies are going to lose all their viewers if the people out there without converter boxes miss a few days worth of shows.
Another thing that doesn’t make any sense to me is why Congress feels the need to get involved. Shouldn’t they have more important things to worry about? Why does this need to be a political decision?!
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/americangeek/archive/2009/02/06/delay-tactics-congress-votes-to-postpone-the-digital-tv-transition-again.aspx
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