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A bill has just passed the US House of Representatives, which will require TV stations to broadcast in digital only beginning in February 2009. Which means that if you have an old style TV it will not receive anything over the air after that date. Congress is planning on offering vouchers to help purchase converters to keep our old sets running. But apparently the converters won't be free.
I have no idea where this is going to leave Canadians.
I have no idea where this is going to leave Canadians.
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As far as I know the plan was to clear the really bandwidth-hungry lower VHF channel frequencies from the beginning. Then those frequencies would be sold for more efficient use for something else. (Which I think is why ABC dumped all of their lower-channel-numbered stations about a decade ago and reorganized with what had been independent stations in many markets. Whether that makes sense now or not I have no idea!)