Let's hope that the ability to switch off the analog signals before June is available in the final bill. I'm sure a number of stations would love to save a good chunk of energy and money by turning off the analog transmitter. It'd be a great way to "go green" I'd say. That's the big push anymore isn't it, going green? Also, by delaying it, I think the government is saying that there is no need to change at all; we'll keep pushing it back and back and back until every single person is ready. The vast majority are ready now. The rest probably aren't going to change until they have to, and they will complain the whole way as well. People are going to blow the transition off even more now because the date they had been told for years, isn't true anymore so what's to say it won't have again. Before we know it, we'll be running two transmitters forever. Refunds for the lost spectrum we've already sold are going to be expensive.
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Let's hope that the ability to switch off the analog signals before June is available in the final bill. I'm sure a number of stations would love to save a good chunk of energy and money by turning off the analog transmitter. It'd be a great way to "go green" I'd say. That's the big push anymore isn't it, going green? Also, by delaying it, I think the government is saying that there is no need to change at all; we'll keep pushing it back and back and back until every single person is ready. The vast majority are ready now. The rest probably aren't going to change until they have to, and they will complain the whole way as well. People are going to blow the transition off even more now because the date they had been told for years, isn't true anymore so what's to say it won't have again. Before we know it, we'll be running two transmitters forever. Refunds for the lost spectrum we've already sold are going to be expensive.
I fear this will end up being just like the switch to metric that never happened.