ropeguru
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Bridgeport, WV
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Re: This Program Deserves To Fail
said by AMDUSER  :I've got a better idea, how about we turn off the analog right now. If they haven't prepared by now, the people with analog OTA probably will not be ready come Febuary. Agreed.. Cause if they cannot afford a $49 set top box, then maybe they need to be out working and not sitting around watching TV. |
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cdru
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN | Says the person not on a fixed income...which is really what the program was suppose to help with. |
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Juke Box
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join:2001-01-29
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| It has nothing to do with fixed income or not. It has to do with the goberment wanting to to take all the analogue signals for their selves. The point is that every American that watches tv or not will have to switch. Period.
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ropeguru
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join:2001-01-25
Bridgeport, WV
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Then it should have denied all those people not on fixed incomes the coupons. |
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cdru
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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said by Juke Box :It has to do with the goberment wanting to to take all the analogue signals for their selves. First of all, it's there analog bandwidth to begin with ultimately. And if they were taking it for themselves, why would they auction it back off, to others? A better technology came about (DTV) and they are making use of it. Without them doing this, the analog spectrum would continued to be use forever as there would be no incentive for stations to switch.
The point is that every American that watches tv or not will have to switch. Period. Well, if they don't watch TV, they don't exactly have anything to switch.
And for the ones that do... Cable TV and Satellite have 65m customers. Dish Network has about 13.7m and DirecTV right around 20m. So that makes about 98.7m subscribers out of approximiately 112m households or 88%. Those subscribers would NOT need converter boxes unless they had a TV that was not hooked up.
I'm not saying that you can only benefit from the program if you are on fixed income. My reply was to the post by ropeguru that says that if people can't afford a $49 STB that they need to be out working and not sitting around watching TV.
I'm not going to have sympathy for some DINK that is bitching and complaining that he isn't getting his $50 discount on his home entertainment center's 5th tuner. But for the elderly widow that is barely scraping by on a monthly social security check and would need to decide between food, medicines, or a $50 cable box, that is what I beleive this program really should have been for. |
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k1ll3rdr4g0n
join:2005-03-19
Homer Glen, IL
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said by cdru :Says the person not on a fixed income...which is really what the program was suppose to help with. I think anyone here can afford $50. Credit cards anyone...
Oh..umm...sorry  .
But really, ropeguru does have a point, $50 for a box that lets you watch TV and should last you years doesn't cost you that much is pretty good. Consider the cost of a DVR or a cable set-top box. Plus you get more channels, and clearer, with DTV, so its kinda a no brainier. If you really can't afford $50, talk to your neighbors to see if they will loan you money, setup an outreach program, do something...just don't complain about it. Don't make the problem worse, always work towards the solution to the problem and you will go far. |
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