So the cut off has been delayed for about four months. Not a big deal, right? Well there are a few reasons why this might be a problem.

- if you are a consumer that needs a converter box and have not yet purchased a converter box - why? For at least the last year, it seems like every time that I watch TV I see commercials about the conversion. And with the $40 coupon the cost is very small to the consumer, many DTV converter boxes are available for $49 or less. The budget for the coupons has been exhausted, but Congress has allocated more funds for this program - more coupons should be available soon.

- Companies have paid billions for the spectrum that was going to become available on Feb 17th. Verizon, ATT, Qualcomm and others have bought this spectrum, now their plans to use it will be delayed..

- And maybe the most important reason why I am against the delay is electricity. One of the top costs that a local broadcaster has is electricity. It takes a lot of electricity to broadcast a signal. I have read that the cost range is about $10,000 to over $50,000 per month for each station to pay for the electricity to continue broadcasting the analog signal. Multiply this by over 1,800 full power local broadcasters and that is a huge quantity of electricity. Shouldn't we be trying to use less energy?

Have you made the conversion? And do you think that the June transition will be delayed again? I think that it might.