digital scam

There was absolutely no reason to switch broadcast tv over to digital except for corporations to make more money. Most people who were either content to receive the lower quality analog signal (i.e., those who chose not to pay for cable) or those who could not afford it were satisfied with broadcast television as it had been. The quality of the picture was not an issue for them. And, as far as the extra bandwidth for each channel goes, nobody's putting any content on it that is not either duplicative or out and out dedicated to full time television sales (infomercials, etc.). And I used to get all local stations. Now, even with an antenna, I get only three.

The switchover to broadcast digital was a total scam of the public by the media conglomerates. All you have to do to verify this is to look at the additional sales the switchover generated: new TV sets (so that converter boxes would not be necessary), antennas (because no one is in a location where they can receive the high quality signal necessary from every station in their area), converter boxes (because no company sold any box for a price anywhere near to the $40 coupon the government issued). The whole deal was a huge corporate con game.

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