Hope Your TV Still Works in a Month

Well, here we are a month away from the big TV switch. For cable and satellite TV subscribers, there won't be any difference at all. But for the people who still rely on an antenna for their signal, the government is pulling the plug on February 17.

There are patches and fixes that one can get, but where did order originate? With the TV companies? With Congress? I don't know what the real answer is.

It would be a little like telling us that our 8-tracks or cassettes or VHS would no longer play after a certain date - not that we couldn't buy them (that's a market force) but that they would no longer work. Who gets to make these decisions?

Another example of government regulation?

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