[Grovenet] Obama urges delay in digital TV transition - MSNBCArticles

[Katie Allnutt]

I can think of two or three reason why it might be advantageous to  
wait a while longer.
And the date to switch was, at least as far as I can tell, completely  
arbitrary.

The most logical reason seems to be this.  When the you know what  
hits the fan in mid February, people are going to be calling their  
congressperson and giving them an earful. Med February is now the  
projected time that the economic rescue plan will be making its way  
out of Congress. Depending on your perspective the rescue plan looks  
either a) like it is important that it be done right the first time  
or b) so fraught with problems in a Congress that is already shaping  
up as one that will bicker this thing into the ground that it will  
take even longer to get through.
Back when we were bailing out Bear Stearns the Bush spokesmen were  
saying it was necessary because we were on the verge of an  
international economic meltdown.  And while they may get credit for  
not stepping off that cliff at the time, there is little evidence  
that we have moved away from a similar precipice if not the exact  
same one.

In the overall global priorities, would you want the US Congress  
getting bombarded with calls about TVs at the time they should be  
working on keeping us safe from deflation or would you feel  
comfortable that they could handle a technical electronic issue at  
the same time as a national economic or global crisis?  Given that  
the timing is arbitrary for the TV switch I would let Congress focus  
on the most important issue and let the TV switch wait.

We may be able to get more channels with digital TV but I doubt that  
we will be getting better content in those channels with digital TV.

Katie

On Jan 8, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Steven wrote:

> Some folks won't change until it is shut off. Why wait any longer?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet- 
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>> Behalf Of Alan Domenghini aka an OleHoss
>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:22 PM
>> To: GroveNet at rdrop.com
>> Subject: [Grovenet] Obama urges delay in digital TV transition -
>> MSNBCArticles
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>>
>> I do not know if anyone in the grove listened to Obama speak the  
>> morning
>> or not, but he did not make any mention about this particular
>> situation.... I wonder why? Anyone have any Idea why?
>>
>>
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