Homer - I see it as something different.
Soapbox on:
The Feds and the high tech folks told us how much better the digital TV signal was and that we should all rush out and buy the new digital TV sets.
We, as the public, made a choice. We wanted to keep things the way they had always been.
Then the government told us that we had made the WRONG choice and that they would now make it FOR us.
If all they wanted was more bandwidth, they could have done the same thing that they did many years ago with "channel 1" on your analog TV.
Just tell all the VHF channels that when they go to renew their license they'll be forced to change to a frequency on the UHF band, which already uses quite a bit less bandwidth per signal. Then they could sell off the entire VHF band...but that wouldn't address their pompous opinion that we are all too dumb to make "the correct choice" on our own.
Soapbox off.
