Consumers Union urges Congress to delay conversion to DTV

[Guest jimg]

From today's washington Post:

Consumers Union is urging Congress to delay the nation's transition to digital television, saying the program to help TV viewers prepare for the switch next month has been underfunded and poorly implemented.

Full article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010703916.html

Best regards,

Jim

[FSBELLA]

Now Obama wants a delay

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA6627776.html

looks like the transition is pushed until June.

[FSBELLA]

here is a idea, have the converter box voucher/coupons, that do not have a expiration date. hmm.

[John Blankenship]

A friend of mine ordered his converter box coupons several months ago and when they arrived they were already expired.

I ordered mine in late fall and had no problem.

JB

[studiomprd]

" -- originally scheduled to go down on February 17th -- "

this is not the first delay, as it was actually originally scheduled to occur several years ago!

[Noah Timan]

Looks like it's official...

http://www.dtvanswers.com/

[studiomprd]

well the spectrum is getting clearer:

" Of the nation’s nearly 1,800 full-power televisions stations, 220 will have terminated their analog signals before Tuesday, which, along with the 421 scheduled for shut off at 11:59 pm, brings the total to 641 stations, or about 36 percent of all full-power stations nationwide, the FCC said. "

http://www.twice.com/article/CA6638097.html

and this

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000232.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1