I got 3

 

it's really funny to me the number of people who think they are "with it," and well-informed simply because they have a new, expensive TV, yet have absolutely no clue LOL

Assuming analog broadcast does finally end on the projected date, who has benefitted at that point? I'm struggling to find any evidence that life on Earth will improve significantly. Watching TV on a poor signal certainly won't suddenly become more pleasant. As far as I can tell, the only thing that is supposed to end is high-power TV broadcast in analog. Low power and rural stations will continue to provide analog service, meaning that most rural and urban areas will still get analog broadcast channels. Cable and satellite will continue to do whatever the companies wish, including providing analog signals.

And as has been said, digital IS NOT HD. All the fools who bought HD TV's with the dream of watching all channels in HD will continue to lose sleep at night

And as has been said,

 

It has absolutely zero to do with your viewing pleasure. The EM spectrum being used by analog TV is going to be auctioned off (remember the reports about Google bidding on the 700MHz spectrum?) It's then up to the company that has a license to that spectrum to determine what they want to do with it. (The speculation is that Google wants to get into offering their own myriad wireless services without having to go through ATT, Verizon, et al.) NOBODY except the owner will be able to broadcast on those frequencies, not even low-power or rural stations, because they won't have a license from the FCC to do so.

 

Bidding up to $20 billion or something like that so far.