This bill is a no-brainer. In fact, it's so obvious, it should have been included from the very beginning of the DTV transition. Yes, I know, they've been pushing the DTV transition for the last two years, and in the next 84 days it will get louder and louder, so in theory, everyone by 2/17 will have heard and know all about the DTV cutoff.
Still... which seems more consumer friendly, everything (low-power analog excluded) simultaneously going off the air at midnight 2/18/09... or a nice friendly message that tells people "We've switched to digital. If you're seeing this message, that means you haven't upgraded yet. You won't see anything here in a month, so get moving and get a DTV converter box, now!"
“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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This bill is a no-brainer. In fact, it's so obvious, it should have been included from the very beginning of the DTV transition. Yes, I know, they've been pushing the DTV transition for the last two years, and in the next 84 days it will get louder and louder, so in theory, everyone by 2/17 will have heard and know all about the DTV cutoff.
Still... which seems more consumer friendly, everything (low-power analog excluded) simultaneously going off the air at midnight 2/18/09... or a nice friendly message that tells people "We've switched to digital. If you're seeing this message, that means you haven't upgraded yet. You won't see anything here in a month, so get moving and get a DTV converter box, now!"