BTW byDesign, Nazis = National Socialist German Workers’ Party. They were more socialist than fascist. Regardless, the political spectrum is like a horse shoe or loop where the extreme left and right or practically right next to each other and extremely similar (which is why they hate each other so much.)
Luscious, you are woefully misinformed. 1st of all any analog tv tuner will continue to work (even better than it did with analog) once you attach a digital-to-analog converter box. With the coupons its less than $40 and if you had to (god forbid) buy it yourself, then it would be around $80. What's TBFD? You'll be receiving about 3 to 4 times more channels than ever before (varies from area to area) and in better quality than before and all for that magical 1 time fee of $80! And although morse-code clappers still work, I think it kinda makes sense to abandon them.
curnel_D, nice to resort to insults when you are unable to argue a point. BTW, the US is at the forefront of EVERY major advancement in technology. Just because some of our infrastructure is antiquated, doesn't mean that we won't catch up (and surpass) the others; but theses things happen in cycles. Example, our cell phone infrastructure is not as advanced as say europe or asia but ask yourself, how long have we had that infrastructure in place as opposed to them? It takes time & money to change these things. It's like if you get the latest & greatest PC and I have none, but then 1 year later I buy the latest & greatest...don't you think mine will be more advanced? Now imagine the time scale as decades instead of years and tens of millions of PCs instead of 1. Don't you think that whoever has the latest at the time is the most advanced? I mean honestly, really?