Obama Asks Congress to Delay Digital TV Switch

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... about 7.8 million households or nearly 7 percent of people with TV's are completely unprepared for the deadline.

Since the legislation mandating the transition occurred over three years ago, this situation reminds me of all the folks who try to register to vote three days before an election and get their panties in a wad when they discover they've waited too late. Discrimination!

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[emaidel]

Since the legislation mandating the transition occurred over three years ago, this situation reminds me of all the folks who try to register to vote three days before an election and get their panties in a wad when they discover they've waited too late. Discrimination!

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That's the best response to this thread yet! The PR campaign for the upcoming changeover is unprecedented in its scope, yet there are still those 7 million folks who seemed to just look the other way, or ignore the situation altogether.

That the $40 credit from the government has run out (temporarily, I believe) is good enough reason to delay the transformation, but if it's people themselves not having paid attention to what's been in their faces now for over three years, that's another matter altogether.

I once rented an apartment that was going co-op. When the conversion plan arrived, several tenants created a Tenant Association that hired a lawyer to investigate the plan, and determine its fairness. This lawyer did an amazing job of taking a truly lousy plan, and turning it into a terrific one: Unfortunately, whenever a meeting was scheduled, only about 50 or so people turned up out of the 250 who were going to be affected. Once the deal was said and done, a final meeting took place to review what was forthcoming. Then the masses turned up, angry and yelling all over the place with, "I've got questions to ask!" and, "I never heard about this!" and other such nonsense.

I suspect much the same will be heard from those afffected by the changeover, no matter how much it's extended. Some people are just plain idiots.