Sales of HDTV sets are creeping up. The NAB says this shows consumers embracing the stuff. If consumers were drooling over digital TV, the NAB wouldn't be begging Congress to force manufacturers to include digital tuners. The manufacturers are doing just fine selling regular sets and have understandably told the NAB to get bent. I've had cable whenever I could afford it, even though I despise cable monopolies.
Satellite is cheaper, the channels are plentiful, and it feels good to hurt a cable company.
Something like DirecTV fixes a problem. So here's an option that's easy to operate and fairly priced. And at the San Francisco NAB show in September, an online reporter for the Bay Guardian got arrested and thrown out for snapping pictures of some micro-power protesters. My editor's original idea was to send somebody to see how online journalists were treated this time around. There aren't many of us left, for one thing.