So the big day to make sure your television can receive the digital signal that stations through which stations are broadcasting has come and gone.
Yesterday (June 12), the all-digital age began in the television industry. TV stations are now broadcasting entirely in digital as opposed to analog signals.
I read a story this morning about people who waited in line for up to three hours to obtain coupons for converter boxes. It’s astounding that so many people waited so long to see that their TV systems made the switch.
This has been ongoing issue for more than a year. President Obama even requested the Federal Communications Commission to delay the conversion from February to June.
But yet people again proved the adage, “If there were no such thing as the last minute, nothing would ever get done.”
I was thinking of trying to track down some people who waited until the last moment to get a converter box for a story, and perhaps I could put the word out on Twitter to get them to respond. But then I realized this was absurd.
Cable television has been around in some form or another since the 1970s, and the people who need converter boxes are those who don’t have cable TV — they’e still using rabbit ears to get reception. So what expectation could I have that people who are so behind the curve with cable TV would have a presence on Twitter?
Stumble It!
