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Shankar Viswanathan <shankar.viswan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes: > Several people have confused the cable companies going digital to the > switch to digital for the over-the-air stations. They somehow think > that the government has mandated that everyone go digital and also > think that going digital implies needing a converter (perhaps from all > the public service announcements about the DTV switch and the coupon > for the converter box). I have found it very difficult to explain the > situation to this crowd without making their eyes glaze over. The cable companies have leveraged this confusion! When I talked to RCN last year when they did this to me they had the gall to tell me that the government mandated it! > -Shankar -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org PGP key available
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