Junk TVs (was Re: hdtv purchase now or later?)

["Rich Braun" <user=44@nabble.blu.org>]

 Matt Shields <[hidden email]> noted: 
> As I stated earlier.  There will be converters coming out.  The last 
> thing the Cable/Satellite industry wants to do is cut off paying 
> subscribers just because they don't want to buy a new TV. 

I think the big impact will be the millions of 2nd/3rd/4th TV sets lying in 
kids' rooms and other spare bedrooms that will suddenly stop working.  Most 
households probably have one or more of those, connected only to analog (cable 
or rabbit ears). 

I have 3 of these myself: guest room, exercise room, bedroom.  I'm not going 
to buy converters for each one; I might set up a central server (maybe someone 
will come out with a multi-channel block retransmitter for cheap that I can 
set up like at a motel, managed via mythtv) or maybe I'll swap all those TVs 
out for LCD TVs if they get cheap enough. 

But what to do with the old TVs?  They'll go to the landfill along with 100 
million others.  The legislature's going to have to get involved if we don't 
want piles of TVs dumped in parking lots and along streets:  each city will 
very likely get overwhelmed trying to cope with all these old TVs, and that 
$20 fee for disposal will suddenly seem cheap.  What *should* have happened 
already is a surcharge tax on new TVs paid into a fund to make disposal of old 
TVs free of charge come 2009-10. 

-rich 


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