it's all going digital

the past few days have been kind of disheartening. I have come to the realization that GM and free television are dying. I don't care so much about GM, but being forced to buy a new TV in the coming years does not ring well with me.

Here's what will happen: by the end of 2008 (?) everything will go to HDTV. now, for the majority of the public, this makes no difference bc everyone subscribes to cable. but for people like Guddu and me and perhaps some other holdouts, our TVs will no longer pick up the analog signal from the antenna.

So, we will have to get some type of converter for the signal. Perhaps the government will subsidize the price. i am not too concerned about the price, etc, but more because i realize i am getting old bc i feel such a resistance to change!

perhaps guddu and i will not watch much TV by then. we could just listen to NPR and use the internet. but there is something nice about the evening news, and, as Michael Powell put it, being FORCED to watch Walter Conkrite (or Tom Brokaw/john siegenthaler, etc.).