clifto wrote:
There'd be room for everyone if Congress wasn't so easily bought by
commercial interests bent on forcing the public to throw away
literally TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of equipment.

I'm as far from a treehugger as one can get, but have you given any
thought whatever to the landfill problem when hundreds of millions of
television sets suddenly need landfill for disposal?

No problem. Congress has it's hand in your pocket and is going to make
the industry give ATSC converters to everyone who wants one. Paid for
by your tax dollars.

Wait and see.