I'm fixing to get on my soap box, I haven't used my soap box in a while. If you love the fact that we have to swap to digital TV programing, leave now and come back when I'm posting about the Wii Mission of Torture or my kids, whatever.
Have I expressed my feelings regarding the "BIG SWITCH" from Analog to Digital? If I have, excuse the following.
We do not live close enough to have cable TV and I refuse to have a dish. We are not home enough for the cost of the dish to work out. We are that family that uses rabbit ears for our TVs, so I will be needing the converter box and I will point out that ANALOG RABBIT EAR RECEPTION WORKS JUST FINE.
I bought two last night, used those coupons that the government of generously provided. Thanks to Uncle Sam.
I feel like this big switch is the government controlling its citizens. Why? We have to switch from analog to digital to receive our TV programing, which causes 1)to buy the converter box, 2)run out and buy new TV's, 3) Cable TV/Dish sales sky rocket. If someone dug deep enough, I bet the government is getting a kickback somewhere somehow.
Tim had to hook up the converter box in our bedroom last night. Why? Channel 30 switched on February 17 as planned and it has just about killed Tim. I wanted no part of this, but he was persistent and I ended up having to get up and finish at 11PM. I know. Moving right along.
Let's talk channels.
Before Converter: 3,5,8,10,13,15,19,24,40,48,50
Tim says we are supposed to get way more channels after converter.
After Converter:3, 3.2, 10, 30, 48, 50.1, 50.2
Notice NO NBC- no Biggest Loser, No ER, no Law & Order
Notice NO ABC - NO BACHELOR, NO UGLY BETTY, NO GREYS ANATOMY, NO KAIT8 NEWS, NO GOOD MORNING AMERICA (this is so my most favorite network)
Notice NO FOX - NO AMERICAN IDOL, NO MEMPHIS NEWS, NO EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS, NO LATE NIGHT SEINFELD, NO LATE NIGHT FRIENDS
BUT, we have 30 now, so we can watch FAMILY GUY. I am NOT a Family Guy FAN.
Channels are not the only problem.
Channel 3 is now wide screen. Channel 30 is still square but HALF the size it was before. AND now every time the wind blows THERE ARE FREAKIN SQUARES DOTTING THE SCREEN AND THE WORDS CUT OFF. Even though I don't like Family Guy, I detest watching the squares pop around and totally hate to watch TV with the words getting chopped off. When we had a dish, the squares and the words getting chopped off was one of my BIGGEST pet peeves.
So tell me, why are we being forced to give up something that wasn't BROKE to start with? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
We are so waiting for the last possible minute to hook up the converter in the living room.
I'm finished.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Digital TV
Posted by Kaye Butler at 6:41 AM
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4 comments:
I solve all this by not having a tv, not for many years. I have heard the theory that it is a form of govt control, but I think many forms of that are soooo in place already, some needed, some not so much. ~Mary
No Grey's Anatomy? NO WAY! I'd have to suck it up and get a dish...I don't watch that much tv, but everybody in my house knows that if there is a new epsiode on do not talk to me, or bother me unless the house is on fire or you are bleeding....Plus, are you a "weather" person? I mean how do you know if you are fixing to get blown away by a tornado with no local channels (3,5,24?)
Oh yeah, I remembered, I have had to watch Grey's off the abc website the next day before (when someone did not record it for me and I had to be somewhere instead of in front of my tv) so I guess you could do that....
Go you! We had dish network - never want it again! Weather kicks off the signal and in the summer we didn't get as many channels cuz the trees would block it as well.
It's all evil.
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