Senate panel votes against digital-TV deadline

Committee Chairman John McCain, a proponent of a bill that had included a deadline, says the revised measure won't go far.

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We need digital TV like a hurricane in Florida

If the media lobby and lawmakers are looking to improve the "television viewing experience", they need look no further than content.

We are 'blessed' with hundreds of channels, most of them with their analog signals originating from a dumpster in the back alley.

Then again, they're only giving us what we demand -- a sad commentary on the state of American culture.