Reply #18: Digital TV IS Free

[KharmaTrain]

You just need a different type of set or a converter box...and the bill just passed will subsudize the big manufacturers to sell those boxes cheap (for the few who will need them).

You won't have to pay extra and those signals, just like the ones you get on your old rabbit ears are free and of far better quality...and you can even use your old rabbit ears if you wanted to.

The subsudising that goes on is the government selling off large amounts of our public spectrum...not just broadcast, to the highest bidder creating communications monopolies and that's where you're paying.

Now, did you bitch that you getting stuck with the bill when all cassette tapes and vinyl albums became passe when the CD came in? That's where the music industry went digital Or, are you pissed that you can only access certain news stories via the internet rather than digging in your paper? That's where they went digital and I assume you subsidized that as well. Television is long overdue for this change-over...radio is in even worse shape and further away from figuring out its digital future.

Happy New Year...