it's not  just in the US this is happening. australia is doing the 
digital thing too.
major irritation to the glutus maximus if you ask me.

Shaun,
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On 23/11/2008 2:09 PM, we were able to ascertain that Butch Bussen 
pondered upon these thoughts, and proclaimed thus.:
> Yep, I haven't seen anything cheap as far as a digital tv.  We were 
> talking about buying Libbie's dad a ttv for his kitchen, and they are 
> expensive.  No longer can we buy a color tv for under a hundred.  One of 
> the many down sides to this digital thing the fcc crammed down our 
> throats.  If the American public only knew how many millions and millions 
> of dollars are being spend to replace and upgrade  equipment.
> 
> I haven't done much messing with smaller tvs, but I've found, as have 
> other ham friends, that the converter boxes seem to have much hotter front 
> ends in them than tv sets do.  I've tried the zenith box here in Vegas, 
> and get good signals off of rabbit ears.
> 
> And, then there is the environment.  How many thousand or millions of old 
> sets are going to land fills.
> 
> 73
> Butch Bussen
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