Government agencies, consumer groups, television broadcasters and other parts of the industry have invested more than $1 billion over the past several years to educate consumers about the shift to digital broadcasting. The message all along has been that analog signals would be shut off on Feb. 17. This aggressive campaign has pushed consumer awareness rates well above 90 percent, they have been working for almost three years to educate consumers that this is the day that will be the digital tv switch. How are they going to recreate that? It will also be costly — forcing the government and industry to pour more resources into additional public service announcements and outreach efforts. At this time, with the economy struggling like this, why do they need to worry about people being unprepared for a tv switch, there are radios and by now they should be well prepared. Shouldn’t the government be more concerned about more important issues? Opinion?
True to their nature, the government has just wasted millions of dollars because they fear that 4.5% of the population doesn’t have their digital converter. How do they know that anyway? I say tough. Switch it on the 17th and forget about it.
What do you think about the delay Congress put on the digital tv switch?
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They need a break rom "important issues" they been working hard on spending mu grandchildrens money.
Most of the stations in Portland Or are switching anyway because they don’t want to spend the money and they want the revenue stream from leasing out their old antennas
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Your right,but…..not every one can afford the converter even with the coupon.Many people on fixed incomes may need more time to save the money.even $10 can mean missing a couple of meals.
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Not a biggy either way. The people working on this in the gov aren’t working on other things anyway. I would have voted to go ahead with it, because there will always be some who aren’t ready, but they didn’t ask me.
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True to their nature, the government has just wasted millions of dollars because they fear that 4.5% of the population doesn’t have their digital converter. How do they know that anyway? I say tough. Switch it on the 17th and forget about it.
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First off, do you know the real reason why they want to switch?
There are two sets of frequencies, one for analog and one for digital which doubles for HD. The analog is much larger mainly because it is based on technology standard set around the 1940′s.
Although it is truly inefficient, the reason is that the government wants to take those frequencies and SELL them to mostly the cell phone industry to further expand their coverage.
The fear is that people who waited cannot afford the remaining $20 or so for the converter with the current economy.
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