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Is the US Ready For the Switch To DTV?
tonsofpcs writes "On Monday, September 8, Wilmington, NC will be the first television market (#135) to make the switch to DTV by shutting off their analog transmitters. This forum will be posting updates throughout the coming months to keep everyone updated on how the transition works so that we are all prepared come February 17, 2009. So far, it seems Wilmington will still be going ahead as planned, despite Tropical Storm Hanna's proximity."
No.
People don't like change, and especially when they have to take action themselves. Come February, a very large number of slackers will wonder why their TVs don't work. Call me a troll, but it will be mostly inner-city welfare-check-receiving families.
The public safety factor is one concern.
The other concern is the technical one.
As people age, our hearing and eyesight deteriorate.
All this High Def stuff will look EXACTLY like analog
to us.
It is a industry subsidized by the government. I say boycott
all TV until common sense prevails.
Poor people cannot afford expensive censorware and propaganda machines like 'DTV'. Poor people cannot afford the monthly required charges for the enforced use of 'pay TV' that digital coercion brings. Poor people will not want to throw out their televisions that can be used for many things and often have other devices that use them like console games, etc. For most poor people, television is their only entertainment besides bars, sitting on porches, getting sot drunk, etc. Hey! television is the modern opiate of the great masses of society. To force them today to use a box that can in the future implement censorship, propaganda, and also force them to route their telephones through it to enforce spying is a great crime. More than that, many folks will just stop using television. Riots in the summertime will probably be MUCH more fun to them. And the long suffering real American taxpayers will pay the bill in lives and property lost while profiteering 'intellectual property' monopolist hogs slosh at the public trough.
People still watch TV? why? use the internets.
I cant you're clogging up the tubes.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It a Break, if
Hold the boat there, you guys allow television sets in prison? What the hell is wrong with your country?