Feb. 19, 2008 Tuesday

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At this time next year there will be no analog tv. If you have an old analog tv, the only way you'll be able to watch broadcasts is with a digital to analog converter. They go on sale this week.

Of course the industry doesn't want to sell you converters; they want you to buy a new tv - and the bigger, the better. Which is actually the way to go.

But we have an old big-screen analog tv that is the center of our family room. We don't want to replace it with an equal-size digital tv (yet)- too expensive. And the Wife has a small analog tv/dvd combo that fits neatly into a corner of her stamping room that suits its purpose just fine. We will use a converter with those.

We do have an old tube-type digital tv in the living room (a 100 lb./45 kg dinosaur) that serves most of our tv watching and will continue to do so for a while.

Of course you can still use the old tv's to watch tapes and dvd's.

So until next year, enjoy the show.