I don't understand some of the angst some folks have around this changeover.

* Try and find your favorite new music on reel-to-reel (or 8-track, or compact cassette, or DAT, etc) today
* Try and find a new three-wheeler ATV today
* Try and find coca cola with cocaine in it today

Technology changes. Governmental rules change. Life changes. Sometimes those changes are bad, this time they got it right.

The forum created to study and implement this change has done a stellar job of creating a new system that not only will serve us well in 2009, but far into the future. Are we all aware of the fact that the compromise made way back when color was introduced doomed us to a TV system that lags behind the rest of industrialized world? Or that the system itself was only ever intended for 9" screens because in the 1930's they couldn't imagine anyone having screens bigger than that. We are talking 70 year old techology!

And don't forget, DTV will be alot more than just HD picture. Things like multi-casting, surround sound, local-into-local casting, interactive content are all possible with this new system.

Change is always hard. But this time around, the ATSC and the Govt really have done an amazing job here.

My two cents,