I also wonder if this marks the end of Twitter, because usually once a fad of the young, starts getting the attention of corporate america, and ends up on TV, it is not long for this world….

There will e a new shiny object to grab the attention of the masses soon enough…

I am a bit perplexed on this, that everyone is acting like this is a surprise, that the “Outgoing Administration” passed in 2005. The DTV transition was passed 13 years ago as part of the “Telecommunications Act of 1996″ yup 1996 thirteen years ago, and it looks like it may drag on longer. The primary issue for the request is that there apparently is a shortage of about a million coupons for converter boxes, or to put that in perspective of the US population, about 3 tenths of 1 percent, and just how many of them really don’t need a converter, because they are on cable or satellite.

My bet is the problem based on 2 things, stupidity, and laziness. I wonder how many stupid people are out there with a government funded digital converter box hooked up between their cable box and the old Dumont waiting to see HDTV on it… BTW a cable box is a D to A converter… Then there are the Lazy ones, well at least procrastinators, waiting until the absolute laaaaast minute to do the conversion, to them I say you snooze you looze…

I guess there may be a third type of individual out there, the eBay entrepreneur, the ones that went out with their coupons and bought up a couple of converters, in hopes of big profits when the conversion happens….

So the next question on my mind is why…
With all the problems this country is facing, shouldn’t congress be addressing those issues instead of television coupons, well maybe not, look at how much time they spent on the Sirius XM merger.