Re: Brother, have you been converted?

In article
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Les Albert  <lalbert1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 12, 7:29�am, Estron <est...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Lots of publicity lately concerning the coming switchover from analog
> > broadcasting to digital only, now scheduled for February 2009 (in the
> > United States).
> >
> > I can understand the commercials for various companies' brands of
converter
> > boxes not exactly telling the whole story. �But the so-called news
stories
> > -- the items that appear as part of the program content, not the
commercial
> > content, of the news -- the ones I've seen are not emphasizing this
point:
> >
> > 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. �If 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.
> >
> > I don't know where to find the statistics, but it doesn't seem to me
that
> > many TV viewers are watching over-the-air TV anymore. �
> 
> 17% of households have no pay TV service on any of their TVs.  Using a
> population figure of approximately 109 million households, that's over
> 18 million households who watch over-the-air TV.

Less.  They could use the TV for watching DVDs and one or more game
machines (Nintendo, Sega, etc) and never use it to watch broadcast.

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