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Are you also tired of hearing about the coming ‘DTV’ big deal?
It seems unlikely to me that anyone who watches television in America and who's older than about eight years of age doesn't know about the coming "revolution" in digital television. You know what I mean, don't you? In February 2009 analog television broadcasts will be history. All television broadcasting will switch over to digital format.
In reality, most people watching television except in rural, isolated areas, probably already "do" television digitally. Well, actually, rural areas probably get most of their television via cable or satellite dishes -- which are digital. Only those using an external antennas, or "rabbit ears" or whatever pick up analog signals.
But, since there are still several thousand people out there in the good old U.S.A. who DO use older, analog television sets, the government and every television station in the country insists on running crawl lines and television commercials over and over and over and ...
I'm really tired of watching them anyway, and I suspect most of you are, too. I suspect the people who do still have older, analog televisions, probably aren't paying attention anyway and will rush around at the last minute. In a world where folks are far more excited about flat-screen televisions, LCD televisions, a good plasma mount for their latest big screen set, and all the bells and whistles -- few people are paying that much attention to the basics.
Oh, one other thing: DTV (digital television) will be there for everyone able to receive it; HDTV (high-definition digital television) is different and requires high-definition televisions to receive it. So don't confuse the two.
If you really aren't clear about all this and you really are afraid you might lose your television reception when the February 2009 cutoff gets here -- by all means call one of your local television stations, check your nearest "big box" electronics store, and get it all clear.
It's only television. You shouldn't lose any sleep worrying over it!
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