Jeremy Phillips

I don’t get it. When I was poor I didn’t even have money to buy an antenna, now my tax dollars are paying for digital converter boxes? This is definitely not the change I was hoping for…

At the request of the incoming Obama Administration, leading members of Congress have drafted legislation to delay the digital TV transition for close to four months, justifying their action as a way to protect needy Americans from losing access to their local TV station programming. But is this the real reason for the delay?

In 2005, Congress passed legislation granting every American household the right to request up to two coupons (worth $40 each) to purchase a digital-to-analog TV converter box. The goal was to ensure that no household would lose access to their local TV station’s programming after February 17, 2009, when those stations would have to stop transmitting analog signals over the public airwaves.

via Don’t delay the digital TV transition: Page 1.