[hoosierham]

It is not pandering;the government is forcing the change to digital in order to ,among other goals, reap billions of dollars in auctions from the soon to be vacated channels.

The government ,by fiat, is rendering a couple of hundred million appliances useless.

What would you say if the government decided current roads are too wide ,and restriped all roads with four foot width lanes, and decreed all existing vehicles be junked without compensation ?

[visualops]

What sucks also is my $25 runs-on-C-batteries TV will be rendered useless. If the power is out for 4 days because of an ice storm it does help keep your mind off your troubles.

[Islander7]

[...What would you say if the government decided current roads are too wide ,and restriped all roads with four foot width lanes, and decreed all existing vehicles be junked without compensation ?...]

Don’t give them any ideas!

[Rb ver. 2.0]

There’s going to be a lot of P.O’d sportsman who have small TV sets in the camper, cabin, boat or whatever and watch sat/sunday games/news/weather in between hunts and fishing.