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Senate OKs 4-month delay to digital TV changeover
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/digital_transition_delay ^ | Monday, January 26, 2009

Posted on 01/26/2009 7:30:26 PM PST by Peace4EarthNow

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1 posted on 01/26/2009 7:30:26 PM PST by Peace4EarthNow
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To: Peace4EarthNow

Great! Four more months of those irritating messages on TV about how my television will “stop working”.


2 posted on 01/26/2009 7:31:58 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I figure the odds be fifty-fifty I just might have somethin' to say)
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To: Peace4EarthNow
President Barack Obama earlier this month called for the transition date to be postponed after the Commerce Department hit a $1.34 billion funding limit for government coupons that consumers may use to help pay for digital TV converter boxes.

What's a "funding limit"?

3 posted on 01/26/2009 7:33:30 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: Peace4EarthNow

This should jerk us right out of this “financial crisis!” Way to go boys! Good job!


4 posted on 01/26/2009 7:33:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Elections have consequences.")
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To: Peace4EarthNow

Not ready??? You’d have to be a moron not to know this is going on. You can’t turn on the TV without everyone and their uncle talking about this.


5 posted on 01/26/2009 7:35:03 PM PST by paul544 (3D-Joy OH Boy!!!)
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To: Peace4EarthNow

If people haven’t been able to go out and either buy a box or get coupons after all the months they’ve had to prepare for this, then they deserve to sit in their living rooms without American Idol until they do.

It’s amazing to me. The complaint seems to be that the government hasn’t paid for enough of the changeover. Funding limit? I suppose it’ll be part of the CBS bailout, whenever that happens.


6 posted on 01/26/2009 7:35:57 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: Peace4EarthNow

“The worst TV reception since the Great Depression!” - Barack Hussein Obama


7 posted on 01/26/2009 7:36:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Elections have consequences.")
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

How many years of warnings will it take for dumbed-down Americans to get their tax-payer funded converter boxes?


8 posted on 01/26/2009 7:37:21 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Peace4EarthNow

I may still get a few baseball games in on the old Watchman.


9 posted on 01/26/2009 7:38:16 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Peace4EarthNow

Why is this happening anyway? Who cares? Why the hell is govt. mandating a change and then spending tax dollars with these coupons to help people with the transition?


10 posted on 01/26/2009 7:38:25 PM PST by Round 9
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To: Peace4EarthNow

This is good news for me. Carries me thru until summer reruns. Thank you Congress.


11 posted on 01/26/2009 7:39:15 PM PST by Ciexyz (Downloaded Ann Coulter's "Guilty" to my Amazon Kindle for $9.99 - 67% discount.No sales tax.)
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To: paul544

Right it is everywhere. I don’t watch any over the air tv. I have satellite. Nothing was going to happen to the channels I get. Yet they made sure to run commercials to tell everyone on that too. The people that didn’t know about this should have to deal with it and pay for their own stupid converter boxes.


12 posted on 01/26/2009 7:40:04 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Peace4EarthNow

I thought Hawaii already switched, and it went surprisingly smoothly. How could Hawaii convert early if there’s going to be a mandate that analog Bcast continue until June?


13 posted on 01/26/2009 7:40:14 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Peace4EarthNow
I have decided to do my best to starve the beast.

I don't need a television. Most of the time, it just raises my blood pressure.

14 posted on 01/26/2009 7:42:00 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: FJB2

(tinfoil helmet on)

Control the transmitter, control the receiver, control the broadcaster, control the content. . . .

No common thread here.

(/tinfoil helmet off)


15 posted on 01/26/2009 7:42:02 PM PST by shoutingandpointing ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: Peace4EarthNow
This "original" February date has been set in stone for what 2 years previous...? I promise utes it will be a miracle if this cut-over occurs before 2010.

I'm sure all the broadcasters that have already switched are not jumping for joy right now since they spent millions to be in compliance on the dead line.

16 posted on 01/26/2009 7:44:14 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: paul544

And on June 17th we can expect another extension. If I remember correctly, the original date of the cutover was supposed to be a couple of years ago and our congresscritters kept pushing the date out.


17 posted on 01/26/2009 7:46:37 PM PST by capydick ("History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid".)
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To: pepperhead

Same for me. Well, more or less; I have cable rather than satellite.


18 posted on 01/26/2009 7:48:06 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I figure the odds be fifty-fifty I just might have somethin' to say)
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To: Peace4EarthNow

The original deadline should have been the day before the Super Bowl and they should have stuck to it.


19 posted on 01/26/2009 7:49:44 PM PST by rabidralph (Obama is the McNabb of politics.)
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To: Peace4EarthNow
How else will the masses be indoctrinated by the obamamessiah's propaganda? I talked about this on my radio show today.

The Conservative Freedom Fighter for anyone who cares to listen to the archive.

20 posted on 01/26/2009 7:54:57 PM PST by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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