Comments on: Legislation Introduced to Push Back DTV Transition

By: seasoup

seasoup — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:24:02 +0000

Some people will never budge on this until they are forced to. If I didn’t have cable, I wouldn’t go get a digital converter until the switch was flipped, I’m just too busy with other priorities. I imagine lots of people are in the same boat. If the switch is delayed, I wouldn’t be surprised if the percentage of people without the converter were nearly identical come June.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:04:21 +0000

“The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:
Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.” Source: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg1713.cfm

That is a pretty small group of people we would be delaying the transition for.

I believe that we could delay it for a decade and there would still be people who would caught unawares.

By: tced

tced — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:50:00 +0000

The people who are not prepared are divided into two groups.
The first group are the procrastinators. I have no mercy for them.
The second group are the poor / elderly who can’t cope. I am in favor of extra help for them.