Are you ready for the federally mandated switch to all-digital broadcast TV on June 12? After several delays, it seems anticlimactic now, but procrastinators are still requesting government vouchers to defray the cost of the required converter boxes for viewers who have older TV sets with over-the-air antennas. While average daily requests for the coupons have dropped from 114,105 a day since the program’s inception to 76,297 in the past 30 days, according to federal figures, they climbed to 92,530 a day in the past week. It looks as if people have finally been getting off their couches and taking action. More than 30 million vouchers have been redeemed in total, the government says.

The question now is whether the actual DTV switch will come and go quietly or whether we’re in for a bumpy transition over the next week. What do you think?

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