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Senate Approves 4-Month Delay In Digital TV Switch

Posted by kdawson on from the procrastinators-win-again dept.

DJRumpy sends word that the US Senate has voted to delay the switch to digital TV until June. "The transition date would move to June 12 from February 17 under the bill that was fueled by worries that viewers are not technically ready for the Congressionally mandated switch-over. It would also allow consumers with expired coupons, available from the government to offset the cost of a $40 converter box, to request new coupons. The government ran out of coupons earlier this month, and about 2.5 million Americans are on a waiting list for them."

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  1. This is crazy by prndll · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is this kinda of idiocy what we are to expect from a so-called tech savy Obama? People are not going to be ready in four months just like they are not ready now. If we are going to do this...THEN LET'S JUST DO IT.

  2. "Coward" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    SCREW THAT CRAP..

    If the elderly are so dried up that they can't leave their own houses to find out what's going on, or they are inert morons who are too stupid to use the internet because T.V. makes them too lazy to go out and learn at a public place so they don't need to own a computer then screw them.

    Everyone else has known about this or lives under a rock. End of story.