I would be in favor of that program with one special consideration (and I'm sure it isn't a factor in this so I'm w/ ya Jeremiah) and that consideration would be that broadcasters would be expected to pay a large portion of it. Afterall, w/ no one capable of watching their broadcasts, no one would be getting their advertisers' messages.

Of course, one could argue, is the Federal Governments' place to impose what technologies must be utilized in the broadcast spectrum? They can govern portion of the bandwidth, but should they be able to force adoption of a particular standard? (digital vs. analog). Seems to me, this should be pulled from the consume. Analogous, it seems, to Blue Ray vs. HD. Looks like the battle ended w/ little fanfare and Sony was on the right side of the battle this time (beta max anyone?).

Any body got the site for the program? Might as well "gets mine". After all, I have friends who hire illegals and rant to them about how they are unconscionably unethical. They always give me an inquisitive and bewildered look. "How does my hiring an illegal to do my lawn affect you?" I get. To this I explain, that he/she will be consuming social services that I am paying for in taxes and will drain Social Security even that much sooner for all the programs diverting federal funding away from this; and that HE at least gets something for not getting social security when the time comes (a lawn mowed for him); where I got nothing. Furthermore, I would state, if you can't afford to hire a legal American to do the job, then you can't afford to have the job done for you and you should go out there and do like I do.

Wait, this was about digital TV. DS need sleepy....