Blu-ray player and flat planel tv

[Blue]

In Australia the date keeps slipping to switch off analog (I think about 2009) - but I have a very nice Panasonic 20 year old CRT in my bedroom and it hasn't had an analog free to air picture on it for over a year - well it's eventually analog after it comes out of the PVR /Set top box and RF converter. Set top box's seem to be droping every month and in reality should be much cheaper than a DVD player as the electronics are about the same both have Power supply, MPEG2 Decoder, DD/DTS Decoder and converter to Toslink or coax. The only difference is Set Top box has a tuner and tuner control (a few cheap electronic parts) vs motors and mechanical mechanisims for the DVD and lasers to read it. It's much easier and quicker to put some electronic components on a ciruit board than to build a mechanical device.
As for dail up it's great for people that only get or send a couple of emails a week and look at a couple of web sites - then there are people like me where 1.5Mb/s is TOO slow. Dial up has a place and is not impacting anyone - they want to use the analog spectrum for other radio activities so they need to stop analog.