Digital TV Transition Today
After years of anticipation, the day is finally upon us; analog TV transmitters all around the country will go dark for the last time. It's June 12th, 2009, and after one false start back in February, we'll see iff pandemonium reigns supreme, or if the transition slides by with little fanfare.
There'll probably be some complaining from those people who actually get their TV from an analog antenna firmly affixed to their roof, where it's been for the last 40 years. As shocking as it seems for home theater and sports enthusiasts, many of these people could really give a rip about HDTV and all its glory. They just want to watch Wheel of Fortune, The Young and the Restless, and NBC news while they're camped in front of their aging Zentih consoles.
Thankfully, that's only about 3% of the U.S. population. Oh, sure many people have roughly the TV viewing habits, but a good percentage of them have seen Monday Night Football or the World Series in HD, prompting the "I've just gotta have it" light bulb to flash on in their heads, whereupon they raced down to Best Buy to pick up a new plasma TV. The funny thing is that they probably paid less for that new, 42" plasma than they did for their Zenith console TV they purchased back in 1968. Such is progress....
