Check out this quote from this article on digital TV:
Will people have to throw out their old TV sets when everything goes digital?
Not necessarily. Any TV set hooked up to cable or a satellite system is unaffected. However, any analog TV sets that use an antenna will no longer be able to receive programming over the air after the cut-off date -- unless it's hooked up to a cable or satellite system, or is set up with a digital converter. It's unclear how much those converters will cost when they become widely available at retail.
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) have already introduced a bill (.pdf) that would provide $468 million in subsidies for digital converters -- but only for low-income households.
We'd hate to have folks not have access to TV! I wonder how many books $468 million would buy? Or how many college educations for low-income households? If we are going to subsidize something for low-income households do we really think it should be digital converters for televisions?
2 comments:
I completely agree with you... one would think there would be better things to subsidize... :)
Servant John
www.GodSci.org
I was recently in India where poverty is measured as having less than one full meal per day.
In America poverty is having less than $12,500 -- and 60% of this nation's poor has a VCR
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