In less than one year, over-the-air television will stop being broadcast in analog signals and will only be available in digital. If you use cable or satellite, then you shouldn’t care, as this won’t affect you. If, like me, you still can’t stand the idea of having to pay the cable company more and more money every year for all those channels you don’t want and won’t watch, then you will have to get a digital TV converter box.
Lucky for me and the other hundred or so people out there without cable, the federal government is giving away coupons for $50 off of the converter boxes, so if you need to pick up one of those boxes from Best Buy, make sure to head over to www.dtv2009.gov first! And please don’t let the Best Buy salesman sell you a new television. You don’t need one.