I just read a story about the United States switching to digital tv sets by 2009. Great, right? Yeah except for the 70 million or so TV sets that will crowd our landfills. And to combat this, the brilliant US govt. is going to hand out vouchers for converter boxes to convert the digital signal to analog for slow adopters. This is the same government full of Democrats against handing out private school vouchers. This is the same government that full of Republicans that like to cut education benefits. This is categorically ridiculous.

One the good note, the analog spectrum that currently broadcasts TV channels will return to the US government which can then sell it and make a bunch of money on it. Oh joy.

Don’t fret about getting a new TV yet though. It seems that if you have cable or satellite you are probably ok. And if you are browsing the internet reading blogs on television, i’m guessing that you’re not rocking B&W screens and that you don’t have to switch from VHF to UHF when you want to watch the spanish chanel.

Read the full story at Fortune Magazine

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