HDTV isn't a requirement by the government, only the switch to digital which is what they're willing to shell out for. They're assisting people to meet the mandate they created, not the bonus offering of broadcast stations of HD. This program is mainly for those who receive TV only over the air. After March, those are the only people that can apply for the voucher anyways.
If you want to nitpick about it, the voucher also doesn't cover any receiver that has any other bells and whistles like DVR or a DVD player built in. It's just the converter, no bells and whistles.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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HDTV isn't a requirement by the government, only the switch to digital which is what they're willing to shell out for. They're assisting people to meet the mandate they created, not the bonus offering of broadcast stations of HD. This program is mainly for those who receive TV only over the air. After March, those are the only people that can apply for the voucher anyways.
If you want to nitpick about it, the voucher also doesn't cover any receiver that has any other bells and whistles like DVR or a DVD player built in. It's just the converter, no bells and whistles.