U.S. local television broadcasters said on Tuesday they would accept a 2009 deadline to switch to airing only higher-quality digital signals, a date being considered by lawmakers.
However, they urged Congress to give consumers the choice of receiving the new signals as-is or converting them to analog so that they would work on older television sets — and to require cable companies to carry extra channels broadcasters offer.
We’ll have to see if this will actually fall through or not. Check out the post at Yahoo News.