I applaud the government authorities for managing the available airwave spectrum efficiently. And I think that the right thing is being done with the coupon program for converters.
I personally refuse to pay for TV programming that includes advertising and thus I rely on free OTA programming and free-to-air satellite programming. That is just my personal feeling. The popular networks have grown wealthy providing free programming funded by advertising and I see no reason to pay more (as in paying for cable or satellite service). Additionally, I think that these most popular media have wielded too much influence on society and politics.
With that in mind, I hope that this move (considering that digital works with a more narrow bandwidth than analog) will free up space on the airwaves for possibly more free OTA channels. The original "big three" and others like them that have followed have long carried too much influence and I think it is time for more sources of information.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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I personally refuse to pay for TV programming that includes advertising and thus I rely on free OTA programming and free-to-air satellite programming. That is just my personal feeling. The popular networks have grown wealthy providing free programming funded by advertising and I see no reason to pay more (as in paying for cable or satellite service). Additionally, I think that these most popular media have wielded too much influence on society and politics.
With that in mind, I hope that this move (considering that digital works with a more narrow bandwidth than analog) will free up space on the airwaves for possibly more free OTA channels. The original "big three" and others like them that have followed have long carried too much influence and I think it is time for more sources of information.