The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Equating this delay with "socialism" indicates a pretty high degree of ignorance on your part. Note that the digital transition is not, and never was, driven by a "free market economy". Instead, it has always been a government imposed deadline. The only thing that has changed is the particular day that the government is telling broadcasters to shut down their analog transmitters. Needless to say, February 17 isn't a "free market" day to do this any more than June 12 is a "socialist" day for the shut down.
I think that delaying the transition is a mistake, but not because of any concerns over "socialism" versus "free markets". My concern is that we're merely delaying the pain for those who will procrastinate about getting ready for digital TV, while causing a real headache for broadcasters who have scheduled transmitter and antenna installations for the original date.