New Technology

Margo and I have entered a new era of TV watching in our house. Since being married, we have not paid for satellite or cable. We have just used bunny ears on our TV and watched whatever channels we pick up. We don't watch that much TV, but we would probably watch more if we had cable or satellite. Anyway, it seems that congress has mandated that all television communications be switched to digital by February 17, 2009. You would think congress would have more important things to worry about besides fancy TV, like a war, a bad economy, bad energy policy, and stuff like that. But I guess not. Maybe if they worried about those things more than TV their approval rating wouldn't be the lowest in history (even lower than W.). Ok, enough political talk. At this point we don't want to get cable, satellite or a new fancy TV in order to watch TV, so we sent off for the coupons for one of those converter boxes that are always on the commercials. Basically, they hook up to the old school TVs and bunny ears and make it possible to receive and watch the digital TV channels by down converting the signal. So, we got our coupons, bought a couple converter boxes, and hooked up our two TVs. Now for the exciting news. Before the converter box we got CBS, ABC, and PBS (AETN). With the new fancy converter box we now get CBS, ABC, CW, 4 channels of AETN, NBC, and FOX. We were very excited because some of our favorite shows come on these new channels. Who knows, maybe one of these days we will get a fancy TV and satellite or cable but probably not for a while.