The National government of Telecommunications and Information (NTIA) of the USA promised not to stop "that any American remains out" from the next transition of analogical television to digitalis.

"It is a question of a big opportunity for which a collaboration commitment exists between the industry and the Government, which it will help to that the consumers reach successfully this transitional period", said today the attached secretary of the Department of Commerce, - on that the NTIA depends - John Kneuer.

The speech of Kneuer, which served as opening to a series of conferences and an exhibition opened to the public on the transition to the television digital age, served to state that the Government is compromised with that new and improved television sign comes to the whole world in the USA.

For it, they have started an advertizing campaign (in English and in Spanish), they have enabled several web pages (www.dtv.com and www.dtvanswers.com) and they organized during the today day an exhibition opened to the public to inform the consumers about the transition.

The consumers have three possibilities before February, 2009: an images converter will have to be bought for his analogical TV set, acquire a new digital TV set or subscribe to a service of cable television, satellite or another service full of television.

Before the fear of that this transition leaves aside to the poorest, between which they emphasize many Latin hearths, the government will provide coupons at the price of 40 dollars for the buy of the converter to the hearths that request them from January, 2008 by phone (1-888-388-2009) or across Internet.

In addition to the Government, in the Congress they are also conscious of the informative and educational importance of the television, therefore they take up office that "one treats as a responsibility of all" that the transition is a success.

"From the Congress we want to support this transition with funds so that the poorest families do not remain without television sign", pointed the democratic senator for New Jersey, Robert Menéndez.

Although the surveys reveal that at present 51 % of the population does not realize the transition, from the industry of the television there were great the voices that they assured that "they take very seriously the step to the digital television sign".

"When in 2009 I eliminate the analogical television I am sure that there will be nobody in the country who does not know what it is spending", said during his intervention Gary Shapiro, president of Consumer Electronics Association.

Other companies that came today to the act to be active part of the transition to the digital sign were National Cable and Telecom Association, National Association of Broadcasters and the Federal Commission of Communications (FCC).

Inside his formative commitment with the consumers, the FCC will organize tomorrow in his head office in Washington a workshop and several conferences on the transition of the analogical television age to the digitalis.


(26/09/07)