about the coming Digital TeeVee thingy:

[thebedespeaks]

This is not "the biggest thing since tv went color"--it's bigger. The color conversion of the mid-60s didn't shut anybody out. Heck, until 1985 my personal in-room tv was black-and-white, as are many of my tv memories. Gradual consumer demand controlled the pace of the color switch, not the government fiat of forced obsolecence

Comments

[auntconi]

I agree with this ~ and Big Bird, too!

[thebedespeaks]

the kids today--they don't understand the joys of a four-channel world where the stations go off the air at 12:30.

[markoutrage]

We did without color TV for the longest time, and I never noticed anything odd until I was watching "Star Trek" at my grandparents' house (for the millionth time), and realized Kirk, Spock, and Scotty all had different color shirts on...

[chadbryant]

It's going to blow for anyone who lives below ground (and there are a lot of basement apartments around here), since DTV has that all-or-nothing thing going on.

But I will say that digital television is absolutely awesome, even on an older analogue set.