DTV switchover delay looming

The senate voted unanimously to delay the impending switchover to DTV on Monday.  Congress is expected to follow suit.

This is a bad idea folks.  Here’s why.

All that advertising that’s been hammering away at us to get ready for the switch is now working against itself.  Folks that had done nothing but needed to will now hit the original (Feb) deadline and their equipment will still work.  They now think they are good to go.  Now, here comes the new and improved June 12 deadline.  Think they’re confused now?  Wait till this summer!

My opinion:  the people that weren’t ready for Feb will not be ready for June either.   This is just delaying the inevitable FUBAR to come. 

Let’s just do this thing and get it over with already!  Maybe then the TV companies will allocate some more bandwidth to their existing HDTV offerings and our signals will improve.

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