A coupon is not needed to purchase a converter box. But with boxes costing $80 in retail stores,
I call BS. The typical price point is $50 and it will probably drop to $20 after all the coupons are gone.
Oh please, give me a break. If they do this, then the resurgent over-the-air antenna business will need a bailout, right?
Government handling anything is a complete cluster f#$k.
I cursed the day that Monday Night Football got switched to ESPN. A sad day that a common man and his son couldn’t watch unless they had satellite or cable.
They shouldn’t have had the stupid coupon program in the first place. Typical federal government.
This transition has already been delayed several times... let's get it over with and move on.
forget it...it will boost the economy
14 years wasn’t enought time for people to prepare.
Cut over now.
Promulgated by you same bunglers who were supposed to have a plan the first time around? No.
This is off topic a little; but I was wondering if anyone out there was experincing problems with their computers. I thought it was just me at first; but friends here and all across the country are having delays with loading, sending and recieving emails; emails with no text, computer pages jumping back and forth. Can’t list all of them. A lot of viruses.
The only reason I am asking is there are a lot of people experiencing this.
Aw geez, is this going to mean that the Walmart employee died for nothing? Those rioting consumers, who were driven to despair by the threat of the looming end of analog tv, will have fought each other for nothing. At least they will be able to watch the inauguration of their messiah in HD.
Parenthetically, it’s good to see that Congress has its prioities right. Television is a critical national asset.
The new digital stuff no doubt has built-in ‘Nielson Rating’ tracking cookie systems built in. Big Brother Boob Tubes.
To paraphrase an old hamburger chain ad,
Wheeeeeere’s the privacy?
Hell, we have $700 billons plus another $1 trillion coming. Just buy everyone that can’t afford it a new HDTV. Why not? That’s what the majority of voters want isn’t it?
Of course such a plan has been in place for more than a year. Such a silly statement does not inspire confidence in Consumers Union.
But then, get a load of the following quote from a clueless Consumers Union executive praising the choice of Tom Daschle as Sec'y of Health and Human Services:
DeAnn Friedholm, Consumers Union’s campaign director for health care reform, made the following statement today in response to news reports that Tom Daschle had been chosen by President-elect Obama to serve as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services: “Tom Daschle has been a leader on health care policy for a long time. Someone with his stature and clout, combined with his passion and expertise in health care, is an exciting choice. It’s a good sign that the Obama administration is serious about addressing the nation’s health care crisis.”
So, my conclusion is that Consumers Union is now fully- and irrevocably-committed to making silly public statements...
No problem that a hug from “The One” won't solve
We paid 1.34 Billion. Those watching TV all day and waiting for their welfare checks don't have to worry about our nations infrastructure being updated.
(Imagine "rainbow" test pattern and a nasal female voice repeating endlessly "This is a test of the digital signal scheduled to take effect on . . ." as the same words scroll down the screen. Awful. I thought it would last no more than a minute or two. It took up the whole 30 minute time slot!)
I urge them to postpone the switch over to Obama too. But that aint gonna happen.