Remember all the hoopla just after Christmas when every time you turned on the TV or listened to the radio there were terrible warnings of the February deadline that analog signal for television would become digital?
Remember when that date came and the FCC or whomever is in charge of this silly thing said "Oops, our bad! Too many of you are not using your $40 government coupon to purchase a converter box, so we are going to postpone the switch."
Well, my friends, today is the deadline, again. Last night of the local news there was another story about the "day the TVs of America went dead". Poppycock, I say.
Did they ever think that people were hoping for the switch so they couldn't get TV signals anymore? There is really nothing good on TV these days--mostly trash, violence, salacious voyeurism, and infomercials. Who needs that?
Anything that IS good--say, like the Jane Austen or Charles Dickens classics made for PBS or by the BBC, will be available for sale on DVD in a few week anyways. (And if you didn't get to watch TV anymore, you wouldn't have to wait until the PBS pledge drive.)
I would bet no one thought of this option. But it is an option I would prefer, if Genius Golfer wasn't a bit of a Gadget Guy and already upgraded our family TVs a few years ago.
So, if your set goes dead today, and that bothers you, come on over. We will still be watching trash here. Dang it.
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another solution to the digital switchover, if it's an issue for anybody, is to watch TV on the internet
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