Posted on 01/06/2009 7:38:33 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
Six weeks from today, TV signals will turn digital, but a program intended to ease the transition, is out of cash.
The government set aside $1.3 billion to provide $40 coupons to help people pay for the converter boxes. But less than two months before the switch, the program is out of money.
If you applied for a coupon before December 31st you should be in the clear, and recieve it about four weeks after your application date.
For more information on the digital switch, click on the DTV link on our homepage at www.wifr.com
Just how many people don’t have cable are dish??
They don't have to pay a penny. Nobody is required to watch TV. It's a luxury.
Most satellite receivers receive the digital broadcast signal, I bought a used HD receiver on Ebay for about 40 dollars last summer so I could watch football on the local channels in HD.
Clowns that don't need it and already have cable are dish, but just could not live without screwing someone else!!
I don't have cable and I'm seriously considering dumping DishNet. I can receive ONE DTV signal clearly over the air. I can find better things to do with the $80/month consumed by DishNet.
The only TV I watch is one hour a week, ER. It's in the final season. It's on the one DTV channel I can receive.
Yes.
I don’t.
I think this project will require only another 3/4 of a trillion dollars. Hey just throw it on the pile of other bailouts, "The Magic Dark Skinned Person of African Descent" will process all requests in the order they are recieved!
Please stand by!
You forgot the group that’ll hook up their converter boxes between their analog cable feed and their set and complain that the box only works in “bypass”. I’m betting they’ll be right up there in the count with the “nobody tole’ me” group.
I thought you watched DR650 motorcycle super stunts on Speedvision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjbMXRW2h2U
You mean... when the government gives away free stuff lots of people who don’t need it show up to take it? Who’da thunk it?
Maybe people should pay for their own DTV boxes.
There’s a novel idea!
The converter boxes are $100-$50 wsith the coupon. I sure wouldn’t put out that money for an old tv.
I dropped my cable back in the 90’s when I got my first dialup, couldn’t afford both at that time. I have been on antenna ever since and have no immediate plan to change. Tv just isn’t that good.
bettah knot skrwwes wif mah big skreens.
honkyes digitals.
Eyes demans change.
Where I live we can't get cable. We do have a dish but only for one TV, and we don't get local channels on Dish. SO if I want local news, I have to get a converter.
One of my co-workers was talking about it last year (2007) Even then, she’d heard that there was a limited number of coupons.
We got our coupon and converter box in the fall. The converter box was not break-the-bank expensive but the coupon was nice.
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