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(If you search Freerepublic using the keyword "“HDTV”, you will find most of the past HDTV postings.. )
How many companies where planning to start testing and building on this new open bandwidth are now having their business plans thwarted?
If I were a broadcaster, I’d sure hate to have to pay $10,000 per month for an addtional 4 months just to broadcast a duplicate signal.
This is scarier than Y2K !
And that would be a bad thing?....maybe they could instead read a book, get their news from the Internet or *gasp*, listen to talk radio.
Who knows, they might even learn something.
But I digress, I think I see the folly in my meandering thoughts.
Funny, but the same people who aren’t ready now will not be ready in four months, either. There will always be someone, somewhere, who will wait until the last possible minute before acting.
You could delay the switchover till 2016, and still have a segment of the population screaming for more time.
Just do it and get it over with.
Just another thing that makes me immensely distrust President Obama. He apparently can’t to stand to have anything make him look bad, yet he is willing to pass legislation that makes the Bush administration look like a failure on this issue even though they did everything they could to facilitate a smooth transition.
This adds more confusion...stations will have the option to switch earlier than the new June deadline.
Some of these stations, which are currently broadcasting in both DTV and analog, were scheduled to move the frequency of the DTV signal after the deadline...now who knows when they switch the DTV freq....and some of these stations will change power output of the DTV, after moving to a different freq, because the range will be different, causing some to need amplifiers.
Gee wiz they have made a simple thing hard.
Why do I have a feeling that its Obama voters who can’t figure out how to accomplish getting a converter box?
They make it sound like receiving an analog TV signal is a “right” guaranteed by the Constitution! Sheesh, these congressman are absolute morons.
Why be upset? After all, we have that other FCC fiasco, HD Radio, to tide us over.
*snicker*
And why is that?
Is that because the millions of people were waiting for their government coupons to pay for the cost of the converter box?
Is there nothing that people can't do on their own? What will the delay cause to change? Will these people still be waiting for their coupons four months from now?
-PJ
Does that mean we have to endure more months of those “are you ready” commercials? Has anyone in the Senate actually viewed those commercials? How could they do this to us?