U.S. Senate postponed the transition to digital television.

January 26, U.S. Senators unanimously voted to transfer the date of the transition from analog to digital broadcasting for four months, from 17 February to 12 June 2009, transfers AP.
Legislators believe that many Americans are not yet ready for digital broadcasting. According to Nielsen, analog TVs still use 6.5 million households. According to Reuters, the number of American households with analog TVs may reach 20 million. All they have to buy a special prefix which converts the digital signal to analog. This attachment is from 40 to 80 dollars.
Postponement of the date of transition to digital broadcasting has supported U.S. President Barack Obama. This happened after the Ministry of Commerce has not been enough 1,34 billion dollars, allocated to issue coupons to help get a discount on the purchase of digital-analog stations.
The agency still has to send 2.6 million citizens of such coupons. Deferred until June transition to digital broadcasting will allow the Americans to get new coupons to replace those that have expired shelf life.