Upcoming Digital TV Changes (aka, NOT TIME TO PANIC)

There’s a lot of confusion regarding what’s going to happen early next year with television. Cutting through the marketing and government bureaucracy, here’s what I can gather. If you have all of your TVs on cable or satellite, nothing will change. If you have a TV that is using rabbit ears or whole-house antenna (on roof or in attic), if that TV does is not have a digital tuner, you will need to buy a converter box. As far as I can guess how they will work (they aren’t out yet), you connect it to your TV and then you connect your antenna to it. You then tune your TV to a channel (2,3 or 4 typically) and leave it there. These boxes will have on/off capability and will have channel changing capability as well. Apparently the picture, since it’s digital, will appear clearer on your TV. You can get more information here: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon/