Despite a year-long effort by the government, broadcasters and cable operators to warn people of the digital-TV switch, about 2.8 million households remained completely unprepared as of Wednesday, according to Nielsen Co.

Older Americans were more prepared than the national average, Nielsen found, but younger people and African-American and Hispanic households continued to lag behind.

Originally scheduled for February the conversion was postponed until Friday June 11th because Obama and Congress felt that TOO MANY were not prepared. Well guess what those same people were still not prepared.

I find the statistics interesting in the groups of people who were least prepared.

Apparently these slackers where hoping for yet ANOTHER DELAY.

They can not say they were not warned, And yet they still failed to prepare for the inevitable. That seems to be the nations Achilles heal sloth and lack of preparation.

Hell, I voted for change...to have all kinda crap like dat get took care-a for me. Shit. Whatda hellithis? Now my t.v. ain't workin'.

Just ya wat soon nottin nor nobody will be workin. Ya jist wait and c I tell ya.

The largest volume of calls came from the Chicago area, followed
by Dallas-Fort Worth, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Who would have guessed? The lands of the most ignorant, uninformed people who need to be babysat by government.

to willhelm it is pretty transparent isn't it? The funniest thing is the OLDER citizenry who are not noted for being very TECH SAVVY were more prepared then the younger technologically superior group.