And we were on this subject a LONG time ago...folks here are Equipped for it!

I think that folks - like me - who are being blacked out by the digital cutover are simply going to turn the darn things off.

After considerable effort to get a TV tuner USB device to get a decent signal for occasional live TV on my computer, I gave up.


We haven't owned an actual TV for 10 years anyway, so I'm not really missing anything. I just with I hadn't wasted all that money on the antenna and coax trying to get the DTV signals.

Americans spend THOUSANDS of hours a year in front of the TV. In the time it takes to watch an episode of Lost, I can weed the garden or split some logs or read a story to my kids or do the dishes or feed and water the chickens or just sit and look at the trees. I like my video media - we use Hulu.com quite a bit, and I use iTunes now and then to buy a TV show or two. But to have this thing that just is constantly flowing new useless crap into your head all the time? I'll pass.