American Consumers Confused Over Transition To Digital TV

Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
doesn't suprise me at all.

http://www.informationweek.com/share...ml?articleID=2
06100588

or

http://tinyurl.com/2o5kwo

Unless the effort is really stepped up, the political backlash will be
severe.

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And the Washington Post's Pegoraro's take on dueling press releases:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/faste..._digitaltv_hea
dlines.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/39dkxu

The questions posted to his blog are interesting. Lots of questions and
confusion.

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Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
doesn't suprise me at all.


The American public is virtually uneducated.

"XPickel" wrote:

Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
doesn't suprise me at all.


The American public is virtually uneducated.

You expect more from a public that elected GWB Jr twice???

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:47:29 -0800 XPickel wrote:
| Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
| doesn't suprise me at all.
|
|
| The American public is virtually uneducated.

Substitute "re" for "virtu".

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:04:12 GMT common_ wrote:
| "XPickel" wrote:
|
| Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
| doesn't suprise me at all.
|
|
|The American public is virtually uneducated.
|
| You expect more from a public that elected GWB Jr twice???

And they don't appear to be doing any better this election, in both parties.

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whosbest54 wrote:
Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
doesn't suprise me at all.


http://tinyurl.com/2o5kwo

Unless the effort is really stepped up, the political backlash will be
severe.

whosbest54

It's no wonder the public is uneducated with reporting like that in the
tinyurl link. Here's one of the sentences:

"By federal law, TV broadcasters will end analog broadcasts on Feb. 17,
2009, and begin sending signals in a digital format."

Stupid me though broadcasters have been sending digital signals for
years already, not waiting until Feb 17 to begin.

whosbest54 wrote:
Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
doesn't suprise me at all.

http://www.informationweek.com/share...ml?articleID=2
06100588

or

http://tinyurl.com/2o5kwo

Unless the effort is really stepped up, the political backlash will be
severe.


It's no wonder the public is uneducated with reporting like that in the
tinyurl link. Here's one of the sentences:

"By federal law, TV broadcasters will end analog broadcasts on Feb. 17,
2009, and begin sending signals in a digital format."

Stupid me thought broadcasters have been sending digital signals for
years already, not waiting until Feb 17, 2009 to begin.

On Jan 30, 4:42*pm, whosbest54
wrote:
Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
doesn't suprise me at all.

http://www.informationweek.com/share...ml?articleID=2
06100588

or

http://tinyurl.com/2o5kwo

Unless the effort is really stepped up, the political backlash will be
severe.

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Its a good time for ambitious enterprising electricians to start going
back into the antenna installation business again, re-learing the lost
art of getting good reception. As more folks get LCD's and they learn
they can get free HD, they may want to rethink antennas again, and
modern suburbia wont look so barren anymore, when in the 60's you had
all those pretty antennas on the roofs, yes.

"whosbest54" wrote in message
...
Seeing how much effort has been put into educating the public, this
doesn't suprise me at all.

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Actually, there has been almost NO effort!

Wal-mart demos (and Best Buy too) tell people they have to subscribe to
it on Cable or Sat!

Only this past two weeks have networks been running spots that tell people
how to
get FREE Digital over the air.

There has been ZERO effort until now.
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