On February the 17th the nation is converting to digital television (DTV) and for most of us our lives will not change one bit. But, for millions of Americans who were a sleep at the wheel it will be National Read a Book Day. The big " Why" question most people are asking is: Why do we need to switch to DTV? Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the amount of spectrum given to television station owners was doubled. The policy rationale for this was to enable the stations to transition US consumers to DTV without interruption of analog broadcasts. some TV stations were able to broadcast in both analogy and digital. But after ten years of digital TV broadcasts, only a small number of US households have made the switch to DTV, delaying the return of valuable spectrums that could be...
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