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Right now you still pay a premium to get an HD Cable Box, only to be disappointed about # of programs, bitrates, overcompression, ... and the fact that you can only watch it on the TV with the Cable box, either the bedroom or the living room, unless you pay even more to get the signal in two locations.

It just adds up for not enough return, imo, and we actually returned our HD Cable box earlier this week and went back to analog for the foreseeable future. They can sort it out before we pay another big cable bill month after month. ]]>Feb 3rd 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/Feb 17th 2007 2:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/

Or perhaps not.]]>Feb 4th 2007 2:58AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/
The date is to switch from an analog signal to a digital signal, not analog to high-def. Digital does not necessarily mean high-def.]]>Feb 4th 2007 6:00AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/
Considering that you can get set-top boxes that handle the shitdown just fine, that you can buy boob-tube televisions with atsc tuners for under $400, and that the federal government is even going to subsidize poor people butts, the excuses are just not there.

If you are an analog broadcaster that cannot afford to operate in the digital world, then you cannot afford to run your business. Period.]]>Feb 4th 2007 7:56AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/02/03/public-citizen-sue-to-postpone-analog-shutoff/
TV watching can become too much of a habit, while I am super interested in HD quality and I just find the number of programs & quality in HD to be lacking. Let's call it perceived value and the need to get of the couch a little.

It is not cost per se. We have 4 flat panel TVs (42, 32, 20) & DVD players, 2 DVRs etc and enough computers to put one in every house on this street. ]]>Feb 4th 2007 10:52AM