Digital TV may adversely affect Seniors come 2009

[Rudey]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

There may be a matter of folk getting the boxes, setting them up and etc....

I know in my area when comcast coverted thier boxes over earlier this year...the lines at the cable company were long and a lot of people had many boxes to swap out.

So part of this problem is not only may you have ot get a new TV but if you need a new cable box and your cable company doesn't offer an option to come to your home....what would a senior / disabled citizen have to do to get thier equipment upgraded?

Why do you need a new box?

From what I know, it's over the air signals that are affected (OTA) and that's a change from NTSC to ATSC.

-Rudey

[AGDee]

Won't you need new boxes if you don't have digital cable already? Also, the cable bill will skyrocket when you have to move to digital cable. Or, will this not matter? I keep trying to figure out how you know whether your TV is digital ready or not. <shrug>

I work in IT, but when it comes to audio/visual junk like this, I know nothing. So, I guess I better research this one, before Feb 2009