[opendtv] Re: Obama Asks Congress to Delay DTV Transition

  • From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:07:09 -0500

The Obama administration should know that if the transition happens on schedule then it will be easy to just blame it on the previous administration. If they put it off it becomes their problem.


- Tom

Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Barry Wilkins wrote:

Why, exactly, should at the very last minute, a delay be
made to account for all those who must surely have been
adequately forewarned of this momentous change?

I really think it's simply because the Obama administration doesn't want to be accused of 
messing upo everyone's TV reception. The reasoning doesn't have to be logical. It would 
simply go something like, "the minute Obama came into office, TV reception goes to 
pot."

Those coupons your government generously distributes to
the needy are something rather unique to the USA.

Actually, Italy is doing something similar, 70 Euros, one per household.

http://www.dgtvi.it/stat/Consumer_Info/Contributo/Page1.html

"Per agevolare questa importante fase di passaggio alla nuova tecnologia è stato predisposto 
un programma di interventi a favore dei cittadini. Infatti chi non ne abbia già usufruito in 
passato, può utilizzare un buono del valore di 70 Euro, messo a disposizione dal Ministero delle 
Comunicazioni per l'acquisto di un decoder digitale presso tutti i rivenditori che aderiscono 
all'iniziativa."

Reception with dubious antennas may be another story...

A rousing amen.

Bert
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