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US Still Dithering Over Analog-Digital TV Conversion

Posted by michael on from the 500-channels-of-reruns dept.

Robin Ingenthron writes "As 2007 gets closer, the legislation to postpone mandatory transition from Analog TV broadcast to Digital is taking shape. Here's an idea - make the broadcasters pay to use the airwaves (they get both analog and digital spectrum for free). For that matter, why permanently auction the bandwidth to cell phone companies, why not rent it to them too? Each postponement keeps the Fed budget in the red, so consumers have a choice -- between analog (black borders on the sides of their digital TVs) and digital (black borders on the top and bottom of their analog TV)."

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  3. Dude ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    These are the same addresses they have been posting for awile....

    at least if you are gonna troll, change the link text to something new!!!

    daaff

    1. Re:Dude ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      why? the troll works everytime I post it. I see no need to please you..

  4. Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Poster:

    What the hell?

    Make sense of no english can you?

  5. I like to dither by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    with my digital anus (mod me up, funny)

  6. Re:digital broadcasts by idesofmarch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why watch TV at all? Just play with your damn free Dell PC all day, you pyramid-scheme-promoting hack.

  7. Headline Should Read: by se2schul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    US Still Dithering Over Analog-Digital TV Conversion AND Imperial-Metric conversion.