I find it funny that all of you tech noobs think that the true tech is with discs in the first place. The real tech is on downloadable content, streaming live on the internet off of my phone. That is what the SMARTPHONE is for.

I am about ready to get rid of my T.V. for good. With this DTV 2009 switch happening, and all that I watch is the news anyways, I'm going to chuck my T.V., and buy me a Blackberry instead.

I think that it is important to note that this switch is really vital to the infrastructure of our entire communications period. The fact remains that for cable, and fiber-optic based companies to be able to keep up with the sheer volume of data transfers that are now going on with out building parallel wires (which would be very costly) they needed congress to pass this act so that T.V. stations can compress their signals so that the companies can have more space to have let's say faster internet speeds on bundle packages. Then there's telephone service as well on those same lines. (Despite that I use a cell phone, then have cable internet, and T.V.) It is beneficial on the part of the consumer, because it means clearer picture, and faster internet speeds, because more space will be available. In essence what I'm saying is that as of this moment in time (2/18/08) what we have is a very busy service road, that is congested, and has many traffic lights. What congress is doing is giving us a highway to clear all the crap up.