There's bound to be a train wreck, whenever the switchover occurs. As someone who has always received his TV with a rooftop antenna, and who has an eleven year old analog set ($200 at Belmont-TV - which still delivers a beautiful picture), I have already made the conversion. The process would be elementary for any of the regular readers of this list, but there are a lot of people who are not technically inclined, and will not, not, not deal with things like this until they are forced to. This is in no way a criticism of those people - any country would have the same problem.
Although we run into diminishing returns, the longer the switchover is delayed, the fewer who will scream bloody-murder because they've just lost their TV. Given that the current administration just came into office, if they can kick this problem down the road, who could blame them. Last and not least, part of the solution is going to involve people climbing on their roofs - something better done when the dangers of snow and ice have been removed. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
