by Samantha Pratt-Tyler

Created on: August 04, 2008   Last Updated: June 02, 2009

We are more and more becoming a society that where are choice is being taken away and being forced to digital TV is just one more thing,

True, if you are poor and do not own a digital TV you can buy a converter box, and get a coupon towards the cost of one, but that is not the point, to me anyway. The point is being told I have to change the way I view TV.

It is bad enough I do not have cable or a dish and rely on local programing that I can get in on my set, now it is digital. There are just some people who really can not afford the luxury of digital tv's, cable or satellite TV and this is just one more thing that the poor and the elderly are being forced to change to if you want to watch tv. In my opinion it is not fair. In my area, even with the converter box we are unable to get a signal, so no television, and this is totally unfair for us.

Did we, the citizens of the United States vote on whether or not we wanted digital TV only? No, our representatives voted this through for us. Just another way to appease big business and the TV business is big.

Who needs 250+ television channels any way, really, do you watch all those stations? It's bad enough there is not a lot of decent shows on TV now without adding hundreds more of the same or 10 sports stations or more. It's like do we have a life any more, or are we all just zoning out in front of the television set?

Going digital is suppose to give us better quality television and sound, but what difference does it make if you have nothing decent on TV to watch? And it is just another way to get dvd's to cost more and to get you buy high defition recorders, and TV's. To some it is a blessing but to those of us on disability, social security, laid off, jobless, etc., it is anything but. The cost of going digital is going to effect more than just television in the long run, and those who can not afford it will be without a source of entertainment, and that is unfair.

I do not feel the Government should force something unto the whole nation unless it was voted on by the people since this is not a matter of national security. I feel they are doing the poor and elderly a great disservice by this and television as it is to now is just fine.

Television was a source that only the elite could afford when it was first made, then the price came down and after World War II television became more common place. Then color TV came out and again only those with money could afford it until the price came down

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