Nearly 800,000 call for help with digital TV

[doctorsteve]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

Sure is a lot of snarkiness going on around here.

I don't think they have a right to complain about something they've been getting for free. If they would like to continue to receive this free entertainment service, then they have a choice to buy the necessary equipment. There were ample opportunities to get the equipment ahead of time and they squandered that opportunity.

Sorry, but I have no sympathy.

Strike that - the only ones I have sympathy for are the senile homebound elderly on a fixed income with no family or caretakers - that have neither the mental capacity, nor the money, to understand and correct the situation and are sitting in the middle of a one room shack in the middle of North Dakota wondering "Wha Happen?".

Since there aren't many of these people - I feel everybody else had SOME way of getting ready over the last 2+ years. Procrastination can bite you in the butt. That's why I always PLAN on waiting until the last minute - so technically, it's not Procrastination... it's a plan!

(And before anybody jumps on me for picking on the poor elderly, I'm NOT - I am seriously referring to aged adults whose mental capacity has dwindled because of the human body's degenerative processes that are common when we age. It is referred to as senility - although 'senile' encompasses a fair number of specific degenerative disorders that we recognize as separate disorders today, I'm referring to the overall status of mental incapacity, and am NOT insinuating 'crazyness'. So don't even think of accusing me of making fun of age-related mental incompetence)