Comments on: Obama Urges Delay In Digital TV Transition

President-elect Says Too Many Americans With Analog TV Sets Won't Be Ready For Feb. Switch

[visionwatch]

You Don''t Get It.
The networks want to compete with cable and satellite.
Do you honestly think They''re doing this for you?
There are people in this country that can''t figure out how to use their electronics devices if they have "more tham ONE BUTTON". Do you think they really understand this.

MAKE THEM SIMULCAST! It''s the least they can do for all of the COMMERCIALS WE HAVE TO WATCH.

TA...TA...For Now.

[concorde5]

I have relatives who are too poor to afford converter boxes without coupons. She is living on a fixed income and has no money left after she pays her bills. In fact her bills are slightly more than her income.

Obama is doing a great job so far!

[kevsan1]

Not quite right.... the Government was going to make a fortune - in auctioning off/licensing the spectrum freed up. That was one of the reasons along with Homeland Security use. It''s costing the broadcasting industry a fortune to make the change and many stations are running into problems.

[likeitis5050]

So, to accommodate the dullards who have sat on their azzes until the 11th hour (while responsible people who were on the ball and believed the deadline to be just that) Obama wants to push things back and what? Have ACORN go door to door and physically take these whimpering diptwads to get the stupid converters? Poor and disadvantaged.....watch what''s coming....upgrades to flat screens. Why not...it''s the year of the bailout and big spender give-away!! All aboard!!!

[bobnjersey]

[Congress required that broadcasters switch from analog to digital broadcasts, which are more efficient, to free up valuable chunks of wireless spectrum. The newly available room in the airwaves can be used for commercial wireless services and for emergency-response networks. ]

good cover for the real reason ... which was to obsolete the whole population of analog sets in the market and force people to either buy cable ... or buy a new tv. money well spent for the cable and consumer electronics lobby.

another fine example of lobbying and how it defines policy that affects you.

[notfooled]

What''s all the hoopla about. Who even needs a boob tube anyway?

Watching television will make you stupid and gullible.

Buy Buy Buy - its moronic to continue to watch such trash.

My advice is to throw out the T.V. and start doing something constructive with your time.

You''re all wasting your lives watching the idiot box.

But the Gov wants you to have T.V. so they can continue to make you stupid.

[greeneyes222]

"Non of these people will die without television. I don''''t feel the government (taxpayers) should have to pay anyway." Posted by cdegolier

The government should have to pay because the government is the one taking away their perfectly good tv''s while making $19.6 billion off the sale of the bandwidth.

You''re likely to feel different if the government takes away something you''ve already paid for and can''t afford to replace.

And someday you may live to be old, although as ignorant as you are of the facts, I doubt it.

[cherry9105]

GO OBAMA GO!

[cdegolier]

Non of these people will die without television. Read a book. I don''t feel the government (taxpayers) should have to pay anyway.