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Digital TV: House Defeats Bill To Delay Analog TV Transition

Submitted by Mohall

Jan 28, 2009

Summary

House Republicans have defeated the bill to extend the DTV switch by a vote of 258-168 (less than two-thirds). In their view, a delay would confuse customers and financially burden television stations.

So, for now, end game is still happening on February 17th and not June 12th as the Obama administration had hoped. With the coupon program broke and an estimated 6.5 million US homes still running analog, it seems that no matter when this goes down, chaos is unavoidable. Read the full article

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Jasonetaylor,

Jan 28, 2009

Good. This would just drag on and on. Everyone has been warned for almost two years! WTF!! If you didn't act on it when you had the chance, guess you are out of luck. Life isn't always fair. Spend the $49 to buy a digital receiver.