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1 edit | 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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