The Effects of the Upcoming (February 09) digital-tv switchover Essay

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The Effects of the Upcoming (February 09) digital-tv switchover If you buy a man a horse and call it transportation in a world full of cars and freeways, you do him no favors. This is the sort of thinking that is killing analog television. The effects of the full switchover to digital television broadcasts are likely to be as catastrophic as the Y2K phenomenon proved to be - it’s a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That’s likely what lawmakers had in mind when they enacted the law that requires television stations to make the s While some might argue that the switchover unfairly affects the poor, people who cannot afford neither new televisions, nor the converter boxes that make reception possible, the fact is, crass or otherwise, that those people will not have enough voice to raise a stink. Their sets will merely become trash. One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television for the United States is that landfills will pick up about 6 million energy hogging televisions and over the course of a fe Some topics in this essay: , TV Information, analog television, converter boxes, Join now to see the rest of the essay! Approximate Word count = 337 Approximate Pages = 1 (250 words per page double spaced)
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