[opendtv] Re: Obama Asks Congress to Delay DTV Transition
- From: "Barry Wilkins" <barry.barrywilkins@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:41:30 +1300
OK Bert,
Perhaps Italy supplies a subsidy but then as I understand it, Italy is a
relatively impoverished country compared with the USA so proportionally
there are likely to be far more of the needy.
Even in the UK, I believe the free STBs were left overs from the previous
marketing disaster.
Regards
Barry
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Manfredi, Albert E <
albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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