Comments on: Digital Deadline gets Delayed 4 Months

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:26:01 +0000

The entire program has been mishandled by the FCC, so the delay has little to do with denial on the part of older customers. I’m in electronics and watching this mess and the hoops people must go through is ridiculous. Most people have been trying their best to get situated and have hit walls left and right. Many are still unprepared, the signals don’t work and stations are losing their markets. The change will be a small disaster whenever it occurs.

I do agree, though, that a delay won’t help much, at least not on it’s own. The coupon program needs more money, but that’s only a small problem. The troubles with the signal transmission must be addressed. Even if everyone gets their box and can pay for it, many stations will be lost to customers and many customers will be lost to stations.

By: Gigan300 is back!!!!!

Gigan300 is back!!!!! — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:12:03 +0000

they only delayed b/c almost noone can get a converter in time, at least thats what i heard

By: Gigan300 is back!!!!!

Gigan300 is back!!!!! — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:10:49 +0000

lol i got mine back in october

By: Darek-T

Darek-T — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:09:40 +0000

*sigh* stupid old people

By: kiyo

kiyo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:06:26 +0000

it is just unbelievable to me that anyone may need more time to get the damn thing. what is it, some hick in the middle of nowhere that doesn’t wanna let go? and i don’t know about in the states, but here the commercials for this thing are kind of insulting. like putting “red with red, white with white and yellow with yellow” is a fucking science that needs to be explained

By: BobaFett

BobaFett — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:52:50 +0000

First of all, this affects less than 1% of households. I find it very discouraging that the government is cowtowing to a miniscule segment of the population that are not contributing much to the Commmunications infrastructure itself. It is estimated that stations nationwide have spent tens of billions of dollars by maintaining old equipment and NOT switching until now. They also had dated their contracts on this equipment for this month. (This costs them even more!)

IF the percentage was higher say 10% then I would support pushing this back to the summer.

Secondly, the government needs those frequencies for other uses.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:24:13 +0000

We’ve delayed this beyond belief. Do it already (like a band aid).

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:22:52 +0000

The technology was obsolete 10 years ago, so why would it matter when the stations stop broadcasting over the air?

Besides, sweeps are rated by digital signals. They cant track people picking up the analog signals.

By: Meli

Meli — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:25:00 +0000

This whole thing makes me laugh we’ve been watching these warnings for more than six months, news channels have given tips on what can be done and there has been a constant reminder of the change scrolling at the bottom of screen every half hour on several channels. People are simply lazy and bitch and whined loud enough to be lazy for another four months.

By: obi-wan kubrick

obi-wan kubrick — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:03:20 +0000

THis makes sense to delay it to summer. I don’t know what idiot wanted to make the switch during sweeps month.