All Digital TV will be delayed until June

Sabrina is reporting:
[US] House Passes DTV Delay Act
“Follow up to previous postings on digital television transition, “by a vote of 264 to 158, the House of Representatives approved S. 352, the DTV Delay Act, which will postpone the transition to digital television until June 12, 2009. This delay will grant millions of households the chance to be prepared for the transition and retain access to an important information resource.”
See also – Over Two Million Households on DTV Coupon Waiting List: “On February 4, Energy and Commerce Chairman Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Boucher sent a letter to their colleagues with an updated list of households on the waiting list, organized by congressional district.””
And of course, with this delay ther are further delays in catchng North America up with most of the rest of the developed world. Necessaarily, there will be delays in interactive TV, broadly available web access TV and, of course, the use of the old analog TV signal white space to provide widely available wireless broadband access, potentially for free, to all.
Eventually… I wonder why it takes so long to send coupons. The big pizza companies should be hired to manage this program. I seem to get loads of coupons from them! They seem to realize that you manage coupons on the redemption end of the chain more cost effectively than trying to have folks request and register up front. Gee, some providers even just stick the coupon on the shelf at the store. How much more budget effective and anti-bureaucracy is that?
Stephen