[78-L] Digital Television -To Be,Or Not To Be? ^

[David Lennick]

They also ran out of those $40 assist coupons and didn't have time to print 
more. Meanwhile, here in Canada, which was 5 years behind the US in getting 
television in the first place, we're not changing for a couple of years. And we 
also don't know from HD Radio, which seems to be in a similar state of "what is 
it, who asked for it, get rid of it"..
http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com/

dl

David Weiner wrote:
> This just in from the New York Times:
> 
> Six weeks before the nation's television stations are scheduled to  
> convert to digital transmission, an aide to President-elect Barack  
> Obama is asking Congress to consider a delay. In the most significant  
> sign to date of concern about the impending digital TV transition, the  
> Obama transition team co-chairman John Podesta said the government  
> funds to support the change are "woefully inadequate" and said that  
> the digital switch date, Feb. 17, should be "reconsidered and extended."
> 
> So, just as the last three deadlines have been extended, the February  
> 2009 date is likely to be put off.
> 
>