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Sorry, coupons. I skip words. That does raise the question of how hard is it to print up a coupon? EDIT: Also how many of those people on the waiting list have cable or satellite and don't know that they don't need a converter box?

I just read over at The Digital Bits that out of the 6 million not ready for the switch, 1.8 million are on a waiting list for coupons for the converter boxes. Granted, they procrastinated but it's better than doing nothing to get ready.

For what it's worth, it's only a four month delay (unless there's yet another delay in June) but that brings up the point that has already been made- what's a four month delay going to do anyway? Most of the people that don't know still won't know in 4 months and the people that won't listen...

Yeah, I mean I love TV but I think there's more important things for Congress to be worrying about right now.

Exactly. Four months isn't going to do anything when the people are either ignoring or are unaware of the situation. The only thing that will get their attention is when their TV doesn't work so you have to make the switch to 'force' those people to ever make the change. Plus, if Neilsen is...

I'm just surprised it took this long for them to (try to) chicken out. Since they've kept pushing the date up for about a decade, I figured I'd die of old age before the switch actually happened.