{"id":711,"date":"2009-01-27T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=711"},"modified":"2009-01-27T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T16:19:06","slug":"senate-okays-digital-tv-transition-delay-to-june-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"Senate okays digital TV transition delay to June 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So lets review… We’re in the worst economic recession in well, a long long time.\u00a0 Most say it’ll get worse before it gets better.\u00a0 And what are our leaders concerned about?\u00a0 “Oh my gosh, people too cheap to pay $30 a month for basic cable might not get to watch Jay Leno soon – we’d better spend billions giving them free converters!”<\/p>\n

I don’t watch a lot of TV because I’m too busy either studying or working.\u00a0 I’m sorry, but if you need a government bailout to watch TV (and you’re not a senior citizen) – you probably shouldn’t be watching tv, you should be out looking for work.\u00a0 If you ARE a senior citizen and you can’t afford cable TV then you’ve got bigger problems.\u00a0 Nobody ever touches this aspect of this story – we aren’t talking about money to give diabetes medicine to seniors… we’re talking about enabling people to keep on watching TV … FOR FREE!\u00a0 This only affects the sorry saps who only watch the FREE signals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PS – the HD receivers aren’t expensive.\u00a0 I actually bought one a few years ago thinking I could use it with my computer (I was wrong of course), and it was maybe all of $12.\u00a0 If you can’t afford a $12 one-time purchase for a leisure activity then you’ve got bigger problems to tackle than how to watch television.<\/p>\n

And how does this benefit the government?\u00a0 Shouldn’t NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. be the ones giving out these converters… they are only being used to keep people watching THEIR advertising – and thus upping their numbers allowing them to charge for said advertising.\u00a0 How it is the responsibility of our government I have no idea.\u00a0 Oh yeah- our government “forced” them to go into HD.<\/p>\n

Hello…\u00a0 Every major TV network has been broadcasting in HD for years now because the public (who are all snapping up new HD LCDs) has been DEMANDING it.<\/p>\n

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