thats sad but true, I am in the same boat as you and would love to see all HD much quicker.
...Man, are these guys messing things up or what? What classic example of not getting out in front of an issue and not taking the initiative. What a bunch of lily livered wimps!
>>>WASHINGTON - Congress is zeroing in on early 2009 as the time for the country to make the switch to digital television broadcasts, a move that will give viewers sharper pictures and better sound.
A Senate bill would set a firm deadline of April 2009, according to a draft proposal obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The draft of a House bill would end analog transmissions on Dec. 31, 2008.
In addition to working out a compromise on the date, lawmakers must decide whether to keep a Senate provision calling for the federal government to pay for converter boxes that would allow people who don?t have or can?t afford a digital TV, or cable or satellite, to continue to receive over-the-air local stations.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is expected to take up the bill Wednesday.
Current law calls for television broadcasters to switch to all-digital transmissions by late 2006, or when 85 percent of households have the ability to receive digital signals. But there?s confusion about how to count the 85 percent, so Congress is stepping in to set a so-called ?hard date? ? requiring broadcasters to end the transmission of their traditional analog signal.<<<
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9697337/

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