[Jeffhs]

That's not all. According to a piece in a recent edition of the TV Technology newsletter (published some time ago, before the one your post links to), all of ITU region 1 will, with no exceptions, transition to DTV very shortly, so it looks like the entire world will have digital television--no more analog--before we know it. Be prepared to hear of millions of existing analog televisions being junked or otherwise dispensed with, not unlike what happened after the US DTV transition almost a half dozen years ago.

I had not heard, until I read your post, of the Mexican government actually giving away ATSC TVs in preparation for that country's DTV switch. I guess that is their version of the US government's plan, which was issuing coupons for free DTV converter boxes.