At 12:03 PM Wednesday 9/10/2008, John Williams wrote:
>Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > Is it digital-ready? As I've mentioned before,
> > one way of looking at that is as a way that the
> > manufacturers of the equipment and the providers
> > of programming have come up with to get some more
> > money out of those who have been living too long
> > with a perfectly adequate (for them)
> > over-eight-year-old TV with rabbit ears or a
> > rooftop antenna which were long ago paid for.
>
>Are you aware that HD broadcasts ("digital") are available
>and can be received by an old rooftop antenna? If you do
>not have a digital TV, you can get a digital/analog converter
>box. In fact, the FCC was offering a $40 rebate to anyone
>purchasing such a box (I think the deal may be over now,
>but you can check with a web search). I remember at one
>point there was a converter box that sold for $40, so with
>the rebate people could get the box for no out-of-pocket
>cost.
Whether I am aware of it is less the point than whether little old
ladies living alone on Social Security need something else technical
to bother with.
. . . ronn! :)
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