The document summarizes the transition to digital television in the United States, including key decisions by the FCC to adopt digital TV standards in the 1990s, challenges to the standards, the establishment of a February 2009 deadline for the analog shutoff, efforts to educate the public and fund converter boxes, and Obama's decision to delay the transition until June 2009 due to many households still not being ready.

1. The Transition to Digital Television in the United States: The Endgame Jeffrey A. Hart Indiana University October 2, 2009 Digital TV Transitions: DTV Switchover, Mobile TV, IPTV-- Lessons and Projections Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)

2. Plug for Book Cambridge University Press 2004

4. Plug for New Journal International Journal of Digital Television Editor: Michael Starks, Oxford Associate Editors: Jeffrey Hart, Indiana University Jock Given, Swinburne University

10. The FCC in 2004 L to R: Kevin Martin, Kathleen Abernathy, Michael Powell, Michael Copps, and Jonathan Adelstein

11. The FCC in 2008

17. Percentage of Households Unready for Analog Switch-Off Source: The Nielson Company.