Bob Miller wrote: Cherie Erwin wrote: > In Muller's presentation, entitled "Analog Shutdown-Early > Retirement or Killing Me Softly," she described how the > station did everything right before the shutdown, including > telling viewers, talking to cable companies and telling > retailers how people could receive DTV. But evidently, not making sure there was an adequate supply of boxes and that they actually worked. The Berlin experience tells of the extensive measures the mabb went through to try to guarantee a successful hard cutoff date. It was not just informing the public, although that was done quite thoroughly, according to their account. Imagine how much more effective a hard cutoff date would be if *all* OTA broadcasters were equally impacted in a given market. Instead of just one lone voice. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.