Yearly TV Licence? ...Really?

[marion11111]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" 
<alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
> 
> Besides, it's not like the change is a complete surprise.  The
> government auction was huge news, for one.  More importantly, for
> anyone who has bought a TV in the past few years (like me), they very
> likely came with stickers that makes it difficult to ignore the fact
> that the move to digital program was happening.  

Well I suppose so, but I haven't bought a new TV for years and 
certainly my frugal senior citizen mother hasn't.  I don't need bigger 
or flatter and, honestly, TV sets never seem to break.  DVD players 
break, but never TVs.  I think the change is complicated for people on 
very fixed incomes who have no desire (or means)to go to cable or to 
buy a new TV and I guess I wonder how necessary it is to have "better" 
Tv over the air when anybody who cares about "better" Tv is  already 
getting it through cable.