Forget the whole "the Second Coming is nigh" stuff we've been hearing for the past hundred years or so. The REAL end of the world, apparently, is February 17, 2009 when all analog signals will switch to digital... FOR GOOD.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I was just reading the paper and read this quote from the president and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service. She's talking about how some people just don't realize the magnitude of this change and probably won't be ready when the time comes.
"There are a large number of households that have a couple sets hooked up to the cable, but they've got the rabbit-ears set in the kids' bedroom or in the playroom or in the basement where the kids are hanging out. And I'm really worried about those kids suddenly getting cut off."
She almost makes it sound like a drug addiction these kids have. Almost...
What WILL we do when the T.V.'s of children around the nation are suddenly silent? They won't be able to watch T.V. in their bedrooms or their playrooms or their basements where they sometimes hang out! The kids will have to *shudder* play with their toys, talk to their friends and family, or, heaven forbid, go outside!
Too cynical? I can never tell....
(To help ease this lady's mind, the T.V.'s will probably only be silent for a day or two until the parents go to the store and buy a converter box or, better yet, a whole brand spankin' new (that's right, SPANKIN' new) digital T.V. for the kids.)
11 years ago
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Wow. I just read this article and it truly is absolute entertainment. I have to add a couple other things.
1) Remember that getting a converter box is complicated enough, but people also have to hook it up properly! Oh NO!!!!
2) These wonderful people are only trying to help out all of us poor idiot viewers in case of a dreaded perfect storm of events. You know, the one where there is a snow storm on Feb 17th, and a bunch of old people are on their roof repositioning their antennae. I won't go into details but you can imagine the pandemonium that would ensue.
I'll close with a quote, "This is big-impact. People think this is like Y2K. That it's not going to be a big deal"
Think of the mayhem!!! Think of children actually using their imaginations! I'm glad I've got my food storage...and my cable...
As one of the few Americans anywhere near my generation who still gets their TV signal through rabbit ears (and doesn't even HAVE a TV in the kids' room!), I have to say I find this drama pretty hilarious. Except that we won't get TV at all if we don't figure out how to get a decent signal through the converter box we bought back in August. All we can get are four channels of some weird Christian network. And all we want is PBS and NBC, and not to have to buy a new TV. Is it too much to ask?
RIDICULOUS! Why do kids have tv's in their bedrooms? CRAZY! I'm so happy this could be the end of THAT world...Oh wait - it won't be you say? They just get brand spankin new tv's? Someone needs to UNPLUG the parents so they can realize how to UNPLUG their kids and re-connect to each other.
That is awesome. We are such slaves to TV. I guess I gotta get a Plasma for Christmas and a Blu-ray player or something bad is gonna happen. I don't know what though...
So did the milky way come unmelted? That is what I really want to know.
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