On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:20:11 GMT, in rec.aviation.piloting, Marty Shapiro
wrote:

"Morgans" wrote in
:

I hope the price of the converters come down, a lot.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
expects the price of the converter box to drop to about $50 to $60. Of
course, if the manufacturers want to push us into buying new TVs, VCRs,
DVRs, etc, they will just keep the price on these high. At Fry's
Electronics, they only converter they had for sale was from Samsung. My
guess is that there will be a run on these come February 17, 2009.

The sensible part of my mind wants to think that if DTV adoption is not high
enough, the television advertising industry (which is the only bunch of
folks with any real stake in this) will subsidize the devices to whatever
degree necessary to retain their audience. The cynical part of me says that
in that circumstance, the ad industry will cry and whine until the
government pays to subsidize them.

I'd be more ashamed of my cynicism if that business model didn't seem to be
working so well for the airlines.

-Scott