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    Digital TV Converter Coupon Program Active Again

    Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12

    Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12

    Obama Asks Congress for Analog TV Shutdown Delay
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    03/05/09

    In reply to Digital TV Converter Coupon Program Active Again
    Government leeches
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/05/09

    In reply to Digital TV Converter Coupon Program Active Again
    Does anyone know which models come with the built in cameras?
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    03/05/09

    @uɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ_GitEmSteveDave: My cousin's brother says they all do.


    He read it on the internet so its got to be true.

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    Image of thedarkhorse thedarkhorse
    03/05/09

    @tande04:

    wouldn't your cousin's brother just be your cousin?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/05/09

    @thedarkhorse: twice removed.
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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    02/12/09

    In reply to Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12
    The last time I remember an analog TV shutdown was was in 9/11, 2001. I only had to look out the window to figure out why.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/11/09

    In reply to Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12
    I want my DTV!!!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/11/09

    In reply to Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12
    No problem, matt. Shutting down analog service to all of San Diego was the least I could do.


    And the rest of you had better pay up. La Jolla didn't believe me when I said I'd shut down their analog broadcasts. Now, Blanche and the rest of the Golden Girls will suffer!

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    02/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: "Now, Blanche and the rest of the Golden Girls will suffer!"


    It can't be any worse than their suffering on Pepper Steak night at Shady Pines Nursing Home...

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    02/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I think you are thinking of Florida. La Jolla is over-run in soccer moms sporting size D silicone pads and late sipping doks that shave their legs and try to fit into the tightest pair of spandex.
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    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Are these 'latte sipping, spandex wearing dorks' male or female?
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    02/11/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: Both, my the more eye curdling of the two usually have packages. Not to say though that that ONLY means women, just usually.
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    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: You left-coasters are a wacky bunch...
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    02/11/09

    In reply to Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12
    As Hostess would say "What a dingdong!" or maybe "That damn Ho Ho".
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    Image of Earthslide Earthslide
    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Long name, must have been banned before for being a Douche bag.
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    02/11/09

    @Earthslide:


    *bows*


    Thanks asshole.

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    Image of Earthslide Earthslide
    02/11/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Haha ... 0 for 2. Fail. Stop stalking me :)
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/11/09

    @Earthslide: Hey, don't be insulting my best blow-up doll friend!
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    Image of mullingitover mullingitover
    02/11/09

    In reply to Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12
    Analog TV is not a constitutional right. Furthermore, if you haven't gotten a digital tuner by now, you deserve to be cut off from the idiot tube.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/11/09

    @mullingitover: At the same time though, why did the government feel the need to interfere and force people to digital in the first place? If digital was really all that great, it wouldn't need a government mandated cutoff of the alternative to become the new standard.


    Just playin' devil's advocate here, personally all the tv-watching I do is with DVD's, and not even hi-def (Sony hasn't yet convinced me that Blu-Ray is worth the hassle, if anything, I'm even more wary of it since they bought their 'victory' in the format war), so the switchover has little to no effect on me.

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    02/11/09

    In reply to Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12
    What a douch
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    Image of Earthslide Earthslide
    02/11/09

    @xElliotx: What's a douch? I know it rhymes with couch :)
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    02/11/09

    @Earthslide: He said it the snooty way. The 'e' is silent..
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    Image of archercc archercc
    02/11/09

    In reply to Obama Officially Delays Analog Broadcast Shutdown to June 12
    Well, I guess its "change."


    Now the old people have to wonder why half of their stories still come on and the other half are just static.


    Yeah, MUCH better idea.

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    02/11/09

    As its @archercc: as its already been stated, this is just to help his buddy at ATT out since Verizon gets that bandwidth when the swtich happens.
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    Image of Thud Thud
    02/11/09

    @archercc: "this is just to help his buddy at ATT out since Verizon gets that bandwidth when the swtich happens"


    Totally wrong, but thanks for playing. AT&T bought billions of dollars worth of 700 MHz in the same auction Verizon participated in, and also prior to that acquired the 700 MHz assets of a company called Aloha for couple billion. This doesn't help anyone except Sprint/Clearwire.

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    Image of Powertool Powertool
    02/11/09

    @Thud: I'm sorry, but aren't there more pressing matters? I mean, FUCK TV. Digital/Analog - stop wasting your fucking time. Let's waste our time on economics instead. Deadlines are deadlines, what is the goddamn point in extending them? The real issue is Keynesian or Austrian. Econ. Bitches. I'm already sick of this administration...


    At this point "HOPE" means a lot less than me than having a fucking game plan. Fuck TV.

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    Image of SpudMills SpudMills
    02/11/09

    @PC Tonic: Exactly. Delaying the switch isn't helping the country's economy, it isn't keeping illegal aliens from crossing the border, it isn't winning the war on terrorism, it ain't doin' FUCK! This is what we get for letting all the hippies vote.
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    02/11/09

    @SpudMills: @PC Tonic: Jesus-Cum-Guzzling-Christ! wtf?
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    Image of Chiper Chiper
    01/27/09

    In reply to Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12
    Great, so that's four more months that I CANT get HDTV because the transmitters aren't allowed to run at full power.


    Fuck you, FCC

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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    01/27/09

    @Chiper: This changeover has nothing whatsoever to do with your ability to get HDTV. It is a change from analog to digital, not SD to HD. Just because the transition is made..... doesn't mean that all the stations that are still broadcasting in SD will automatically switch to HD.
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    Image of kylenalepa kylenalepa
    01/27/09

    In reply to Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12
    Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. I see commercials every day saying that the deadline is February 17. Everybody knows that the deadline is February 17.


    Besides, this whole situation is already a clusterfuck; $100 says that the coupon program is out of money because the FCC did an awful job at the beginning explaining who needed a converter and who didn't. Delaying the transition will just make things worse.

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    01/27/09

    In reply to Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12
    I fail to see why anyone posting to this tech blog would give a rats ass about the delay. The truth is that most of us here already have digital solutions and will not notice one iota of difference once the switch is actually made.


    Instead of whining about the problem, which really isn't a problem for you at all; how about becoming part of the solution. Go down to your local senior center and volunteer to help some seniors get properly set up.

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    Image of rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy
    01/27/09

    In reply to Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12
    is TV that vital that they're going to delay the shutdown because god forbid 7 million people have to go without TV until they get a digital converter box?


    to those 7 million people: i watch, at most, 10 minutes of TV a week, and i'm quite well off.

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    01/27/09

    @rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy: What does it matter if the transition is delayed? Is delaying the transition going to cause some sort of ripple effect that will end up destroying the world?
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    Image of Brendan Bone Brendan Bone
    01/27/09

    In reply to Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12
    First: What makes the government think that waiting a few more months with get 6.5 million people to make the switch? Most people only change out of necessity, and there's no necessity to change while we keep postponing the transition. Make the transition, then the remaining people will make the change.

    Second: Are the companies who already purchased the bandwidth slots going to be upset with this? They purchased those slots quite a while ago and are probably just itching to use those slots to their benefit. I would sure be mad if I paid millions and billions of dollars for something and the government kept putting off when I could finally have that thing!
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    01/27/09

    @Lizard_King: Stop the Barack Hussein hatin!
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    Image of ksat ksat
    01/27/09

    @Brendan Bone:


    Mark my words - The delay will be delayed again - it won't happen until Feb, 2010!! Why? Because we still have 6.0 million people that haven't switched...

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    01/27/09

    @ksat: They'll push it to 2012, and Barack Hussein will hope that email he got saying the world will end then is correct.
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    01/27/09

    In reply to Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12
    For all you fine people who are so put out by this delay, might I just point out that the coupon program was grossly underfunded? And yes, television is technically a right - the airwaves are owned by the public trust and licensed for use by the various networks. To say that certain people (namely the poor and the elderly) should no longer have access to a very basic utility is pretty goddamn monstrous.
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