[raybbr]

I love conspiracies, they’re lots of fun. But this is just the evolution of the technology. Digital is better. It uses narrower frequencies than analog.

Then explain why Congress is mandating the change over to digital vis-a-vis a "better" technology? Where are the market forces in a mandate by Congress?

[DB]

Congress through the FCC has always controlled spectrum allocation. Much of that spectrum has been stuck in a time warp from days long since past. Only congress can reassign the use of that spectrum which there is only one of. You can't make more. It is a national resource. It is high time that it caught up with current technology so it can be used with much higher efficiency and benefit many more people.

TV channel allocations were done in the late 1940's with late 40's technology in mind... A lot has changed since then... It is about time it caught up with current technology...

It is as simple as that.