Tomorrow was supposed to be the deadline for networks to begin broadcasting exclusively in High Definition. Stupidity once again thwarts the best-laid plans.
Quite honestly I am dumbfounded that after a year of constant reminders that broadcasting was switching to HD on February 17, 2009 the government thinks the people are unprepared. I suppose since the government takes no less than five-ten years to get anything started, one year was just too damn quick!
Even more ridiculous is the fact that people are unprepared. I am dumbfounded that after a year of constant reminders, people still haven't gotten the clue that they ought to get a nice little converter box or an HD-ready TV already. I suppose some people are just too damn dumb and lazy.
I don't care if you aren't prepared. You've had an entire year. And if you weren't aware, then obviously you don't have a TV anyway. This is an example of government enabling: Allowing the laziness instead of saying to all of those unprepared people, "Too damn bad we gave you a year and if you don't get things squared your TV will go blank until you do, so la-de-da, go find sympathy in the dic-tion-ary."
Because you know what's going to happen? People still won't be prepared in June or whenever because they're sitting around saying to each other, "Well whadaya know, we've got ourselves another three whole months to sit on our asses."
Just for comparison, in that amount of time I've upgraded to an HD-ready LCD TV, and since upgraded the LCD TV.
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