{"id":368,"date":"2009-02-09T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2009-02-09T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T20:41:07","slug":"dtv-delay-revenge-of-the-luddites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/09\/dtv-delay-revenge-of-the-luddites\/","title":{"rendered":"DTV delay: Revenge of the Luddites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TVWeek has a decent overview of the reasoning behind the delay of the DTV transition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"align-left frame\" src=\"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/fcc-dtv-coupon-card1.png\" alt=\"DTV coupon image\" \/>What I would like to know is how much of the $1.5B USD that was allocated to the coupon program was wasted on &#8216;administration&#8217; of the program?\u00a0 The coupon itself isn&#8217;t a coupon at all, it is in the form of an embossed plastic card complete with magnetic strip and hologram.\u00a0 A hologram?\u00a0 WTF!<\/p>\n<p>A better approach would be to send just the number on a plasticized paper insert.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even want to think about how many tons of plastic are headed for the landfill because of this poorly executed program.<\/p>\n<p>[image courtesy Wikipedia: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:FCC_DTV_Coupon_Card.png]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvweek.com\/news\/2009\/02\/tracking_the_path_to_digital_t.php\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TVWeek has a decent overview of the reasoning behind the delay of the DTV transition. What I would like to know is how much of the $1.5B USD that was allocated to the coupon program was wasted on &#8216;administration&#8217; of the program?\u00a0 The coupon itself isn&#8217;t a coupon at all, it is in the form &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/09\/dtv-delay-revenge-of-the-luddites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DTV delay: Revenge of the Luddites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-media","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}