Why does Congress want to delay the February 17 deadline to take away the analog signal for television stations? A whopping %5.7 of households still are not ready to receive the new digital signal (according to a recent Neilsen Rating). Congress thinks that this last %5 is worth delaying the deadline by four months. Four months will help everyone get on board.

Its not a hard concept to grasp but there are people who will not change until forced to.

Delay the deadline by four months, all the people who have not converted by February will still not convert by June. Plus why does the government care who can or cant watch TV? It is not an obligation to get television channels is it? Its not a God given right to watch American Idol.

People who are not aware of the change will be aware when they cant watch Jerry Springer on Tuesday Feb. 17th. They will probably wake up out of their stupor and join the rest of us who have been able to watch cable since the mid eighties. It seems pretty obvious to me that this last couple of million people who are not ready, don’t care too much to be ready.

I say just convert the signal already. AT&T already purchased the spectrum that television channels broadcast on. Maybe the government cares because if AT&T use this spectrum for cellular phone signals, then that must mean that old TVs will be able to pick up those signals… no? I really don’t know or care. I have have not watched TV from an over the air antenna for a very long time. I prefer to watch things in HD anyways.