HDTV Deadline Set

We ’ve already told you that parallel TV as you know it will be kaput sometime in the next five long time , but a US Senate dialog box work on a newfangled greenback has actually attach a real date to this wishy - weak deadline . April 7 , 2009 is now the 24-hour interval delegated for TV station to switch entirely to digital programming . Great for those of us who have already made the swtich to compatible computer hardware , not so great for those with old tube TVs . The politics has also decided that when those analog wavelengths are abandon , they ’ll betray them off in an auction that they hope to play in more than $ 10 billion . Wowsa . No wonderment they ’re so psyched to get this done with . However , to make things a piffling better for those who just do n’t have digital TV on the top of their shopping lists , the unexampled bill has dispense up to $ 3 billion to subsidize some of the toll for Americans to purchase devices that would exchange digital signals so existing analogue television sets could still act . These box should cost about $ 50 a pop .

“ We take the position that , if we ’re mandate this changeover , we can not leave citizenry behind , ” Sen. Ted Stevens , the citizens committee chairperson and an Alaska Republican , secernate reporters . “ I do n’t anticipate to turn a loss that $ 3 billion ” in debate on the Senate floor , he state .

Awww , is n’t that sweet ? No couch potato left behind . Of naturally , it seems that another bill being enlist in the House Commerce Committee has some difference , allotting the deadline as December 31 , 2008 and only $ 990 million for the convertor box program . Soooooooooo , we ’ll just see who comes up on top .

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