In article , ml wrote:

no more free tv?? where do you live?

here in the usa over the air tv is , was and shall remain free

in feb it will switch to digital however shall still be free

The current situation is somewhat analogous to what happened, decades
ago, when television in the U.S. moved from VHF-only to VHF-plus-UHF.

Everybody who wanted to receive the full set of channels, had to
either buy a new TV, or buy a UHF block converter so that they could
downshift the UHF frequencies to a VHF frequency that their existing
TV set could receive.

The television signal is, and will remain, free to receive (or,
rather, its transmission is funded by advertising). There is no fee
on the user to receive the TV signal.

The equipment needed to receive TV signals in the U.S. is not, and
never has been free.

This is a somewhat bigger switch-over, technology-wise, than the
expansion to UHF some years ago. Whether it's a Good Thing or a Bad
Thing is, I think, much more of a personal conclusion than anything
that can be decided objectively.

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