No, silly, not the presidential election. If you have any sense at all, you have tuned out the politicians. But speaking of television, perhaps you have seen the television spot starring
Bob Barker that is intended to inform the electronically-impaired among us (you know who you are) of the single most important fact on the horizon, that one bright, cold morning next February, only digital television signals will be broadcast in the United States. People who have cable or satellite with those new, very expensive, high-definition television (HDTV) sets have nothing to worry about, we keep hearing. Only time will tell whether this is true. But there will be no more analog signals for anybody, ever, so all of you rabbit-ear lovers and roof-antenna folks out there, as well as anybody who refused to pay for cable or satellite, are going to need to do something. I mean besides checking yourself into the equivalent of a methadone clinic for analog addicts to treat your TV withdrawal.
The something you are going to need to do is get and install a converter box to convert the digital signal to analog for older TVs. But don’t panic. As a community service, I have done the research and found something that should ease your fears and let you know just how easy the conversion is going to be (actually, it’s as easy as
π).
Please watch
this video.
There, now, don’t you feel better?
