The whole point for the digital converter box is that if you don't have cable or satellite then your TV won't be able to pick up the signal, rendering your antenna useless.
Unless you're saying you'll just do without TV completely?
Yeah, that's pretty much it--at least anything that comes through the air, rather than something we'd be watching on DVD (or for all that, videotape). We've known about the analog signals going away for months but finally came out and decided this past weekend we didn't particularly care.
Well, hell ... if you wait long enough you'll probably be able to replace your whole TV (since I'm assuming you guys probably aren't big screen people) for just a little more than what the converter boxes cost
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Oh no, we're not strong at all--we're weak and we know it, and that's why we're letting out broadcast go away. :) There are so many other things we enjoy doing more but TV becomes our greatest procrastination time sink. As for our specific shows, most have either gone away, are going away, or are on DVD up to the current season, so we're just planning on watching DVDs when all the other stuff is done for the day.
We're not getting a converter box either, because we have cable. But for me, even if I dropped my TV watching habits, I'd want to make sure I could receive emergency news broadcasts.
I've got other means for receiving emergency broadcasts, fortunately, or else losing the signal entirely might indeed make me a tad nervous.
As it is, though, I watch so little television as a rule that I usually only see those broadcasts after I've found out something's happened and turn the TV on to see if I can learn more and keep tabs on whatever's going on.
Well, you live off in the woods, right? What emergencies do you need to gear up for? Hordes of people heading out of the now-uninhabitable cities, perhaps. ;-)
Our reaction was similar to yours, but we're thinking it's the hard-core procrastinators and others who simply require a sense of urgency to get anything done. We don't believe the number will be much improved by June.
Most likely not; the procrastinators will still keep to that habit, and if it's a financial issue, then I imagine someone who hasn't been able to get one buy now might not by June either.
We do have cable, but when I first moved in with M, we didn't. The rare times we watched the TV was when we had some rented movies, or I'd put on one of my owned movies for background noise. We literally got cable to watch the new Battlestar Galactica, but since this is the final season and we're moving anyway ... guess what? Our cable subscription is being dropped. Why? While I do like many of the shows on NatGeo, History, International History and OnDemand, TV is pretty much a life suck. We got soooo much more done before we got cable. I'm looking forward to being cable free again!
Besides, I have NetFlix. They have all the shows in DVD that I care to watch. heh. Who needs to waste their life watching all those commercials?
>>While I do like many of the shows on NatGeo, History, International History and OnDemand...<<
This tags a big part of the reason we don't have cable or satellite. NatGeo, History, SciFi, and a handful of other channels would virtually guarantee that my writing productivity would be badly slashed.
>>Besides, I have NetFlix.<<
I've thought about that, but aside from TV shows I can pretty much get what I want one way or another through the library. As for TV shows, I spend less on those than I would on Netflix (since it could take me weeks at best and sometimes months to get through a season of a show unless it's something I can't get enough of right from the beginning), so I've never signed up for it.
>>TV is pretty much a life suck<<
"I turn off the TV" is still the first answer on my list when people ask me how I get so much writing done. ("I turn off the Internet" is #2.)
We get next to no reception down in the basement where we have the video setup, so it winds up being videos-only. And the effect? Any TV we see is at my parents' house, our friends' houses, or at our favorite bar for Phillies-watching. The effect is to make TV a special occasion, and we kind of like that.
Internet, on the other hand...I spend far too much time trolling it for neat stuff.
Speaking of which, you might like this. It's not a Navy jacket, but these midcentury outdoors jackets blow people away. At least, I've always gotten compliments on my late 1950s Sears Fieldmaster, which looks a lot like this despite being a different brand. (Windward, this kind, was the house brand of Montgomery Ward.)
It's a period size 48, but that usually translates to a modern 46.
I don't know if I'm good looking enough to pull off a jacket like that. ;)
As for television, I saw that the wimps in Congress decided to extend the switchover deadline to June 12th. This actually doesn't impact me too much, though, since the only station I watch with any regularity is still going dark on Tuesday (along with another one that I watch semi-occasionally). I think my first DVD set purchase is going to be season one of Chuck.
Ironically, this past week I got the converter box gift card that I applied for when I was still debating the no-digital decision. Now I'm debating if I want to barter it or keep it, along with the accompanying paperwork, as a future historical item. I'm leaning heavily towards the latter.
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Unless you're saying you'll just do without TV completely?
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As it is, though, I watch so little television as a rule that I usually only see those broadcasts after I've found out something's happened and turn the TV on to see if I can learn more and keep tabs on whatever's going on.
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Besides, I have NetFlix. They have all the shows in DVD that I care to watch. heh. Who needs to waste their life watching all those commercials?
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This tags a big part of the reason we don't have cable or satellite. NatGeo, History, SciFi, and a handful of other channels would virtually guarantee that my writing productivity would be badly slashed.
>>Besides, I have NetFlix.<<
I've thought about that, but aside from TV shows I can pretty much get what I want one way or another through the library. As for TV shows, I spend less on those than I would on Netflix (since it could take me weeks at best and sometimes months to get through a season of a show unless it's something I can't get enough of right from the beginning), so I've never signed up for it.
>>TV is pretty much a life suck<<
"I turn off the TV" is still the first answer on my list when people ask me how I get so much writing done. ("I turn off the Internet" is #2.)
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Fiat, fiat, amen.
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Internet, on the other hand...I spend far too much time trolling it for neat stuff.
Speaking of which, you might like this. It's not a Navy jacket, but these midcentury outdoors jackets blow people away. At least, I've always gotten compliments on my late 1950s Sears Fieldmaster, which looks a lot like this despite being a different brand. (Windward, this kind, was the house brand of Montgomery Ward.)
It's a period size 48, but that usually translates to a modern 46.
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As for television, I saw that the wimps in Congress decided to extend the switchover deadline to June 12th. This actually doesn't impact me too much, though, since the only station I watch with any regularity is still going dark on Tuesday (along with another one that I watch semi-occasionally). I think my first DVD set purchase is going to be season one of Chuck.
Ironically, this past week I got the converter box gift card that I applied for when I was still debating the no-digital decision. Now I'm debating if I want to barter it or keep it, along with the accompanying paperwork, as a future historical item. I'm leaning heavily towards the latter.
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