Finally saw the "digital TV" commercial.

[Carmine]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

That seems to happen every time a big event like this is planned. Especially if the ACLU gets it's nose poked in on it. Somebody will definitely sue and whine discrimination, and the taxpayers will wind up holding the bag for some kind of payout, as usual.

Charles

The discrimination in this case is against those of us who like to imagine we live in a free-market economy where broadcasters and consumers would decide when we "go digital", not lobbyists representing an industry that needs a big seller to keep the assembly lines running in the Shang-Dong province of a communist nation.

We (taxpayers) are already subsidizing the cost of this switch via the $40 set-top coupons... Or were you expecting to see your federal taxes reduced because the government is about to have a windfall for the analog spectrum? Then we'll subsidize the clean-up and/or recycling of millions of TV sets obsoleted overnight by government decree.

But I digress...

Since I've already accepted/expected greed and corruption as a system of government years ago; it would be nice if all-knowing big-brother would allow at least some portion (1-2 channels worth) of the vacated spectrum TV to remain for local public/non-profit/emergency usage. I would think boss-man would allow us at least this symbolic table-scrap.