Nearly 800,000 call for help with digital TV

[Another_Dude]

Originally Posted by VinnAY

No not under estimated, over-estimated that people today have a smidge of common sense and can reasonably manage their lives without direct intervention.

Imagine the transition from regular to unleaded gas in today's society. The .gov would be throwing around coupons for free cars.

[Sponge-worthy]

I saw a decent number of folks buying converter boxes at my local Best Buy last Saturday. I guess they thought everyone was kidding about the changeover...sorry folks. It's real.

[Nick4Blu_81]

These people have had almost two years to prepare for this. Come on!

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Nick4u_81

These people have had almost two years to prepare for this. Come on!

Actually, this was a 10 year plan which started about 1996 or so. One of the proposed dates was April of 2006. I didn't think it would ever get here.

Was only in the past couple of years they got serious about telling people. Too bad they never touched on the topic of new antenna as much.

Tell the bozo's in Washington the old antenna will work, and they all believe it.

[Sammy]

Originally Posted by ryan69969

I saw a decent number of folks buying converter boxes at my local Best Buy last Saturday. I guess they thought everyone was kidding about the changeover...sorry folks. It's real.

I saw a thing on the news where they BB guy came right on the screen and said that they were selling new HDTV's and the converter box to hook it up with. As far as I know in looking at a lot of HDTV ads, none of them are just a monitor w/o a tuner anymore like when HDTV's first came out to cut down costs of production.

Scamming the government out of $40 and the consumer out of another $10 ($50-$40 coupon) for a converter that is not even neccesary should be a crime and this guy just came right out and said it. The news reporter didn't even clue in to it.

[Sammy]

Originally Posted by Another_Dude

Imagine the transition from regular to unleaded gas in today's society. The .gov would be throwing around coupons for free cars.

No kidding.

[threefiftyrocket]

Originally Posted by Another_Dude

Imagine the transition from regular to unleaded gas in today's society. The .gov would be throwing around coupons for free cars.

I WANT A FREE CAR!!!!