Are you ready???

**TG Latina** · 06-12-2009, 11:54 AM

Hey guys...it' about 13 hours away from another mark in history. The Digital TV is here. NO more analog TV nationwide. Are you guys ready? Call your grandmothers/parents....I already did

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009...witchover.html

RedForman · 06-12-2009, 12:40 PM

Luckily for the grandparents, we did this whole thing back before the February date. It gets a MUCH better picture than they had before anyway so they were glad for it.

Shane · 06-12-2009, 05:36 PM

Oh I miss the good ole days of 3 channels a turn dial and antennas with my atari 2600 for company when nothing was on. lol not really.

**Sir-Nerd** · 06-12-2009, 11:22 PM

We still have a TV with a turn Dial that controlled the volume as well as on or off. The thing needs to actually warm up when turned on or else you can't read anything.

Mech__Warrior · 06-13-2009, 01:43 PM

My friend's TV at camp doesn't work because of it.

**TG Latina** · 06-13-2009, 11:34 PM

Aww that sucks. I'm sure he'll get it fixed now that he doesn't have a choice.

**Extinct** · 06-14-2009, 11:46 AM

Any idea if there's a site for coupons for your better half?

**UnDeaD77** · 06-14-2009, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Extinct

Any idea if there's a site for coupons for your better half?

They did a switch where you live as well?

**TG Latina** · 06-14-2009, 02:22 PM

Not sure but you should google it.

**Diplomatic_Immunity** · 06-14-2009, 10:50 PM

I think television is out of control, without television waves how will we get the related cancers?

FrankManik · 06-15-2009, 04:21 PM

I got ready for it years ago.

www.hulu.com

Capt Splendid · 06-16-2009, 10:12 AM

I'm only 22, but I keep thinking that we've created a whole set of circumstances where in the future our kids will hear a joke about the snowy screen or fuzz and as we laugh, they must question what it is we are laughing about. Kind of like how my parents tell stories of how they remember having an outhouse or their first microwave that cost $300 or color television being a big deal.

**TG Latina** · 06-16-2009, 11:08 AM

Yeah I hear you Capt. Splendid....I remember our first VCR that cost $900.00. Insane. Can't wait to see what the future holds.

ScratchMonkey · 06-19-2009, 12:56 PM

In an episode of the original Munsters (black and white, I think), Grandpa says that back in his day, they had gas TV.

When I was a kid, we "moved up" in class by getting a color TV, something that only relatively well-to-do people could afford. So when I see people complain about being poor and having a color TV, I just can't sympathize. I was poorer, and I thought I was pretty well off at the time.

**WhiskeySix** · 06-19-2009, 12:59 PM

I always get a chuckle driving by all the mom'n'pop motels where the sign still has "color TV" in neon ... right under the "no vacancy" sign