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The Senate on Monday voted unanimously to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12.

We’ve been preparing for Feb 17, 2009 for 4 years … why push it back now? Just because there’s a new administration in the White House? It seems to me that this is going to cause more confusion, especially with the blitz of advertising just about every TV channel has been doing for the past few weeks (“did we say February 17? Sorry we meant June 12. For real this time.”).

On the other hand, I guess the electronics industry will be happy … now they’ve got more time to convince people they need new televisions for the switch. If you have friends or family that are confused, consider this flowchart. 😉