Easy DTV transition.

If your anything like me, you may have cable television or even a satellite dish to receive your television fix. But you may also have or may only have an antenna on the roof of your house or rabbit ears on your television to receive local channels. If so, then this blog post is for you.

By February 17, 2009 All broadcast television signals (over the air) will be digital. This means that your analog televisions won't be able to receive the signal.

If you use an antenna to receive your television broadcasts you will have three options.

- Subscribe to cable television or Satellite provider. "Uggggh, more monopoly money"

- Upgrade to an HD or SD television with a digital tuner built in.

- Buy a DTV converter to connect to your old antenna.

Being the cheap a$$ that I am, I am planning to buy the DTV converter box for the transition. I still have my Satellite receiver from Bell ExpressVu but for the kids playroom and my mom's bedroom television they really don't need access to all those porn and movie channels that I currently subscribe too.

One nice thing about it though is that when your antenna's set up you'll either have perfect reception or no reception at all. Which means no more snowy channels with a ghost of the adjacent channel. It's a digital stream so it's either perfect or it's not. No in between...

I'll keep you posted on different models of digital TV tuners in future blogs... Oh boy, think of all those old geezers who will wake up one morning and not be able to view their televisions... Then think of all those grandkids and children who will receive said call from the geezer begging them to come fix their television...

I bet bestbuy's gonna be busy that cold February morning eh?