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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
As it is, I watch very little broadcast TV these days, instead watching DVDs of the old shows of the '70s I grew up with; in fact, I have a small collection of DVDs and VHS tapes of such programs as Quincy, Kojak, The Odd Couple, and more (I am adding more DVDs from time to time as well). I don't think I would miss the extra channels in the expanded basic package at all.
However, the same blog that mentioned the FCC's plan to again delay the digital transition also mentioned that it is actually too late to do so now. Too much money has been invested in PSAs (public service announcements) and runners across the screen during network shows intended to educate the viewing public about DTV and the transition [including stressing the fact that analog TV will end for good on 02.17.09], too much work and expense has gone into equipping the nation's analog TV stations for digital (the stations' owners are probably facing huge electricity bills at this time because of having to power two high-power TV transmitters at the same time, antenna/tower/transmitter maintenance for two stations, et al.), and so forth. I sincerely hope the digital transition occurs on 02.17 so we can get this over with, once and for all.
Sheeeesh . . . Good grief.
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Oh boo hoo! A months salary from an overpaid-talking-news-head could probably pay the electric bill for a year, or the money they get "serving" the public with colon-cleanser infomercials. If their business model is so bad that the lost ad revenue from PSA's kills them, they were dying anyways.
We know you love your Time-Warner cable. But guess what? The whole world doesn't want to subscribe to some shit-ass cable service, or have to be tethered to a cable box. I don't sit around and "dedicate" time to watch DVDs either... Sometimes I just like to have the TV on in the background while I do other things... The way McCloud is on right now as I type this. It's also the way I find new things to enjoy, not just buying things I've already heard of.
Plenty of people facing tough times and lost jobs right now, so I don't have much use for guaranteeing a revenue stream for a bunch of cable-companies and Chinese crap manufacturers looking to fill landfills with functional products.
I'm not going to cry if digital takes off, but I'll probably enjoy a good chuckle if the whole bomb blows up in the government-mandated face.
