Comments on: House defeats digital TV delay bill

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:36:32 +0000

100% agreed…

By: Lost2030

Lost2030 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:10:09 +0000

BRING ON FULL DIGITAL AND HD TV ALREADY!! Any house hold could own an HD tv now a days even if it is only a 20 inch. Those things are so cheap now and will only get cheaper.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:15:28 +0000

Why isnt anyone appalled that the converter boxes are taxpayer subsidized. Why should I have to pay for this? When did TV become a “right”…? If people cant buy a new TV to receive the signal, too bad. Washington…QUIT WASTING OUR MONEY ON THESE REDICULOUS F****NG programs!!

By: backbeat

backbeat — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:49:03 +0000

^It’s now been made clear that House Republican leadership, _alone_, is choosing this issue to be obstructionist. That is the truly sad truth about Delay’s legacy. He may be gone, but his disciples remain.

By: BigE

BigE — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:44:37 +0000

Think again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012904496.html

By: ahow628

ahow628 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:36:35 +0000

I love the part where a Digital Converter Box has $15 worth of parts and would usually be sold for $20, but since there are $40 cards out there, they charge $40+$20=$60. Nice.

Rural? Everyone I know that lives in the country has Satellite. Poor? Every person I know on Welfare, has Seven jeans, cable, and their nails did. Give me a break.

As for the transition, if they did anything, I think they should STOP broadcasting analog shows and replace them with a scroll that says something like, “Your TV is NOT broken! Go to your local electronics store and ask for a converter! Go to http://www.dtv2009.gov!!!” Run those for about a month or two.

By: Mags

Mags — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:18:26 +0000

Wow, I’m glad they defeated this ridiculous delay.

I just wrote my representative telling him how thankful I was that he voted against it!

By: MadMike

MadMike — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:02:34 +0000

Any technological progress is good. If the Govt didn’t force it, we’d still be watching 480i!

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By: areichental

areichental — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:35:19 +0000

man thank god this got defeated. i work for a dish network retailer and half of the marketing i work on for the last month was for this. ty house of reps

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:27:06 +0000

“Whatever Obama tries to do good for the country. This will happen the country itself would shoot itself on the foot before seing Obama give fast results. In another words just because his black they will do the best posible to stall him that way he looks bad!!
One man sayed well he gonna fix the country it will just take him twice as long or more to do so than McCain would of.
I think that it could be president yakamura, garcia,stockovitch you know whatever it is dosent have to be always a white man what he needs to have is BRAINS!
McCain is no good with out BRAINS but sure his ass is white.”

Brains ehh? Hmm…

On another note, GOOD that this will go through as planned. This government forced conversion was a stupid thing to begin with made even more absurd by forcing these companies to maintain BOTH systems for X amount of time more because Joe stupid didn’t bother to get his government subsidy and/or pay the $30 to get the converter…You know what I say? Let their TV’s go dark, as soon as that happens the majority of those people will go get a converter to resolve the problem and those that don’t probably just don’t care if they have TV or not.

By: Ervel Flick

Ervel Flick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:22:34 +0000

LTE > daytime TV. Just sayin’.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:11:58 +0000

Yaaay! Was stupid that they were delaying it for such a small number of people.

By: thatguy0109

thatguy0109 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:44:57 +0000

Whether the analog TV cut off happens in February or June there will be people “still not ready” If they push it back, people will just sit and wait AGAIN!!!! Shut it off and that will speed them up! I still remember when VZW turned off their analog service. They sent free phones to analog customers and there were some that still claimed they weren’t ready. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink!

By: bonesb

bonesb — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:30:52 +0000

The “other side” to this – the gum-ment needs the billions that ATTWS and VZW already committed to getting those airwaves dedicated to our future high-speed wireless data fix.

Hurry frickin up, already!

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:24:39 +0000

@Anton Wahlman who said: “We want 40 meg/second in the air, not more stupid daytime television for people who sit in sofas with beer cans.”

HEY! MLB players have rights too, ya know!

By: neodorian

neodorian — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:19:11 +0000

Good. I understand the intentions behind the proposed delay and they were good but in reality this will be much more likely to get the remaining stragglers taken care of. Otherwise some would have dragged their feet forever.

In a way I think this may have just been good political theater. When people bitch, the administration can say “hey, we tried but were defeated”. I wonder if they planned for this to die.

By: ATOWN

ATOWN — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:14:23 +0000

@MIKE
DITTO, DITTO, DITTO….COULDN’T AGREE MORE.

By: Anton Wahlman

Anton Wahlman — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:14:14 +0000

Enough already! These people have had approximately 10 years to prepare for this transition. Another 4 months to do what should have been done a decade ago? No more unnecessary delays, please.

People watch too much tv as it is. Isn’t it a good thing if some people have to get their asses out of the sofa and start doing something useful instead? All a delay would do is to sabotage the plans for LTE launched by AT&T and Verizon Wireless. We want 40 meg/second in the air, not more stupid daytime television for people who sit in sofas with beer cans.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:08:25 +0000

The problem as usual is the lazy people who want to sit on their ass and leave everything up to the Government to hold their hand and make it right.

Even if you aren’t the most tech savvy person this has been in the news in some form for the better part of three years, topped off by the HARD marketing push by every local TV station and company that carries the converter boxes the last 6-8 months and there is no reason there are 6 million+ people who aren’t ready.

I do understand that there is a problem with the funding for the cards for $40 off, but ya know what? Deal with it, that’s what you get for waiting too long. People knew years ago about this and chose to wait, now they want to cry foul because the billions of dollars that was there for the taking all along has dried up. No sympathy from me.

By: Jordan Brown

Jordan Brown — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:02:38 +0000

Wow, “they AREN’T ready in the months.”

That’s what I meant.

By: Jordan Brown

Jordan Brown — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:01:25 +0000

I think if they aren’t ready in a week or two they are ready in 4 months.

Some people just don’t care.

By: Fujitsujeff

Fujitsujeff — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:59:25 +0000

LOL@ Steven’s comment … unfortunately, that’s the only way to get the message across … they will surely make the change when it gets cut off …

By: Lucid REM

Lucid REM — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:59:06 +0000

dang .. they should just give it up already .. this is a pathetic attempt by Obama to win the hearts of “poor, rural and low-income” Americans who should gosh darn know better than to delay if they want to keep their TVs working

By: StevenGlansburg

StevenGlansburg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:57:46 +0000

The people who aren’t prepared for it probably don’t watch all that much TV anyway… I think they will get the point when they see the fuzz

By: Don

Don — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:55:28 +0000

I agree that any delay would confuse a lot of people. But no matter what, some people are going to be lost on whatever day they switch over to all ditigal

By: FRKRE

FRKRE — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:53:41 +0000

Whatever Obama tries to do good for the country. This will happen the country itself would shoot itself on the foot before seing Obama give fast results. In another words just because his black they will do the best posible to stall him that way he looks bad!!
One man sayed well he gonna fix the country it will just take him twice as long or more to do so than McCain would of.
I think that it could be president yakamura, garcia,stockovitch you know whatever it is dosent have to be always a white man what he needs to have is BRAINS!
McCain is no good with out BRAINS but sure his ass is white.

By: kyle

kyle — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:52:30 +0000

finally they did something right… im a democrat but this is just stupid… all it would do is confuse the people who prepared themselves and cost more money.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:48:18 +0000