We almost never use all caps to make a point, but we will do so now: Congress must IMMEDIATELY do what it can to plug what holes are possible to plug, toward a 2/17/09 transition date. No matter when the deed is done, there will be a certain amount of pain. The simple fact is this: No matter when the deed is done, there will be a significant number of somnambulant consumers who miss it. Buy Sansonic FT-300A Digital To Analog TV Converter Box: Analog-to-Digital (DTV) Converters - FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases. Delaying the transition date makes no sense whatsoever. RBR/TVBR observation: All four of NAB’s suggestions make sense. His first point is to assume an 80% redemption rate, rather than a 100% rate, immediately freeing up what is in fact at this point theoretical cash Second, he suggested Congress quickly authorize more funding for the program Third, the expiration date on unused coupons could be waived and fourth, lift anti-deficiency requirements, which force applied-for-but-unused coupons which may never be used to count as spent money, thus, as with suggestion one, instantly creating cash for the program. NAB President/.CEO David Rehr offered suggestions amounting to a four-point program to quickly solve the problem. However, NTIA must honor the fact that the outstanding coupons may be turned in. The NTIA has its $1.34M ceiling committed to converter boxes, but only a bit over half of that has actually been spent by consumers.
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