Digital+Television

__ Digital Television __ History: The united state will be converting all television signals to digital only. This switch is intended to free up more airwaves for public safety uses and also to provide better television reception. This switch was meant to happen on February 17th 2009 but president Obama successfully extended the deadline to June 12th 2009. The government has created a program for people to buy digital TV converter boxes with government coupons. Pros:  -  Improved television reception. Crisp image.  -  A wider bandwidth that can accommodate more channels.  -  This will free up more airwaves for public safety uses. Cons:  -  This could affect about 20 million consumers who have not yet adopted the technology.  -  Not enough government coupons, 1 million people are on a waiting list for the coupons.   -  Anyone who doesn’t have digital TV won’t have any TV. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;">