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| said by dslwanter:Just get friggin cable or a dish already. Uh, no.
I'd be fine with the guvmint selling off the spectrum (for a lot more than $20B) and replacing local TV with a national digital satellite transmission system (think Directv spot beams), providing, of course, they gave us absolute rights to install dishes - I can't, without a private balcony space.
"Friggin cable" costs me $55 a month, before the next round of price hikes. What you suggest amounts to a new $660 annual tax. No thanks.
OTA TV may see archaic and primitive to you, but it is more than enough for me, if the pay-tv industry doesn't want to offer the consumer low-cost options to watch pay-channels. The RF spectrum used for TV is owned by the public; a case can be made to take it away, IFF a suitable replacement is offered. DTV is that replacement. But I don't think we need a converter-box coupon program. |
