FCC Chairman Kevin Martin sent a letter yesterday to fellow Commissioner Michael Copps agreeing with Copps' idea to test the digital TV transition in a few cities before the entire country loses analog signals on Feb. 17, 2009. Worried that the DTV transition may not go quite as smoothly as planned, Copps had previously proposed the idea of trialing it to work out any glitches before next February. Multichannel News has the full story.
A DTV test strikes me as an exceedingly good idea. Most of the country still is unaware that their analog TVs will cease to work next February without the use of some kind of converter box, be it the government-subsidized digital-to-analog variety or one from their cable or satellite provider. Testing the transition in a few markets would enable the FCC to better spread the word about the impending analog signal cutoff and iron out any hiccups that may come up along the way.
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