1.0 link 156638 <![CDATA[Will It Take a Democratic President to Leave the Digital TV Switch to the Free Market?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-deggans/will-it-take-a-democratic_b_156638.html It took staunch anti-Communist Dick Nixon to forge a relationship with Communist China and anti-interventionist George W. Bush to engineer the biggest experiment in nation building of this century.

So maybe it will take a Democratic president to let the free market handle America's switch to digital TV.

Most of the time, when new consumer technology takes over the nation, we hardly notice. As the iPod made record stores irrelevant, the DVR phases out VCR tapes and the remote control slowly crumbles...

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