"Wake up and smell the converter box": FCC talks DTV switch: Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica.
"Let's do it, man. Lock and load," declared
G.W. Green, aka "Offender #576" just prior to his execution by the state of Texas in 1991. One sensed a somewhat similar esprit de corps here at the Federal Communications Commission, where a mid-sized platoon of government, industry, and technology types gathered on Wednesday to stare DTV Day version 2.0 in the face—it's coming (yes way; for real) on Friday, June 12.
"Anyone who thinks there's another chance of a delay had better wake up and smell the converter box," interim Chair Michael Copps told the Open Commission meeting audience. "This is not a drill. This is the real thing." Expect disruptions, Copps predicted for the umpteenth time. But the good news, he insisted, is that the country is more prepared than it would be had the government stuck to the original date: February 17.
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