Re: Brother, have you been converted?

On May 12, 9:52=A0am, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 12, 7:29 am, Estron <est...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Lots of publicity lately concerning the coming switchover from analog
> > broadcasting to digital only, now scheduled for February 2009 (in the
> > United States).
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> > I can understand the commercials for various companies' brands of
conver=
ter
> > boxes not exactly telling the whole story. =A0But the so-called news
sto=
ries
> > -- the items that appear as part of the program content, not the
commerc=
ial
> > content, of the news -- the ones I've seen are not emphasizing this
poin=
t:
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> > You only need a converter box (or a digital-receiving set) if you're
> > watching over-the-air broadcast signals, if you're getting your
programs=

> > through the antenna. =A0If you have cable, or if you have satellite
TV, =
you
> > can have the oldest TV set still working and it will still work
without =
a
> > converter.
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> > I don't know where to find the statistics, but it doesn't seem to me
tha=
t
> > many TV viewers are watching over-the-air TV anymore. =A0One of the
Kans=
as
> > City stations doesn't even make its over-the-air channel number part
of =
its
> > logo. =A0The just call themselves "NBC Action News," or "Your NBC
Action=
 News
> > station," which indicates to me that most of their audience doesn't
see
> > them on their over-the-air channel, 41.
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> > I wonder how many people are buying converter boxes who don't actually
n=
eed
> > them.
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> I just read in The Wilson Quarterly thatI am one of only 2% of
> Americans without a TV in the house. I'm surprised, I thought it would
> be a bit higher (like 8%, maybe.)

2% of the total population would almost 6 million people.  Wow.
There's you, my brother, and who else?

Mary