Reply #7: Some stats right now

[Robbien]

nearly 20 million households — have only antenna-signal TVs in their homes

and only 9 percent of these households plan to upgrade to cable:

"We're promoting the daylights out of (upgrading)," said KC McWilliams, general manager of the local Comcast cable company, which serves 90,000 households in Leon, Gadsden and Wakulla counties. "But so far, we're not seeing much of a change."

over 7 million households have not yet made provisions to connect to dtv converter boxes

and 1 million households are on the waiting list for the rebate coupons which can not be honored because the program ran out of funds


http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20090124/BREAKINGNEWS/901240305/1006/OPINION


Seems like pretty big numbers to me and a good reason to wait a bit