Jun 12 2009Don't Forget: Your TV Might Not Work Anymore
Just a reminder that today is the day television stations across America are ending analog broadcast, so if you don't have cable, and if you've ignored the last two years of ads explaining that you'd need a converter box, you are probably not going to be able to watch TGIF tonight. Which is particularly sad for this woman from Variety's article on the switch:
"When you're alone like me, that's my partner," Patricia Bruchalski, 82, said about her TV.
God, I fear old age so much. But, hey, at least my TV still works!
Reader Comments
1. bribios - June 12, 2009 6:08 PM
FUCK!
2. Yep - June 12, 2009 10:27 PM
You know scientists have found that analog broadcast signals can influence human brain patterns. Now we have the analog broadcast changed to digital so that the government can beam orders directly in to out brains.
You can't run you can't hide the aluminum hats only increase the reception.
(Remember foil rabbit ears)
MMMmmm can you smell your brain cells being singed as the government scribes its will directly in to your cerebral cortex?
Can you hear that voice calling from within?
" Buy more Cheese .... buy more cheese"
This massage brought to you By Government Cheese. " It is like real cheese, but colored orange and made of crap"
3. CMA - June 12, 2009 10:36 PM
@2: The Government Cheese gives great massages, I don't know what you're complaining about.
4. Brittney - June 12, 2009 10:59 PM
In Australia, they're not turning off analogue for another two years :P
Where can I get this "government cheese"?
5. Yep - June 12, 2009 11:05 PM
In response to CMA,
Dear CMA,
What you are saying is intriguingly weird. As I have had problems receiving massages from the Government Cheese. After extensive experimentation I have arrived at the conclusion that my butt cheeks muffle the reception. I have experimented with reception enhancement devices. Unfortunately most of them are not designed for rectal reception facilitation. So far I have had mixed results, but am always keeping an open mind for new alternatives.
Yours truly,
Yep
6. gma - June 13, 2009 2:44 AM
Dear Yep,
One might think that the actual "butt cheecks" muffle this goverment transmission you so joyfully banter with. When in reality it is the "butt chesse" that actually block this digital goverment invaision. What you need to focus on is applying this "cheese" to your head (or the head of a loved one, as to protect them) and start running down the street yelling the phase "I am Mayor McCheese, and I can't hear you". This should work for both digital and analog goverment transmissions. It worked with a friend of mine, and I can honestly say that having blocked these waves has made him a changed man. Good luck.
gma
7. James Howlett III - June 13, 2009 11:35 AM
I got my converter box 6 months ago for the original deadline and because I have eyes and ears I saw the local NY number to call to get a free voucher for it (not to mention generally being aware of the change). I guess some people who watch their beloved television daily don't have eyes or ears?
8. Dave - June 13, 2009 12:13 PM
lol who still uses analog neway
9. Joey - June 13, 2009 2:10 PM
^ @8 Missouri residents and old people. :)
10. J-Red - June 13, 2009 11:42 PM
This is for people who don't have cable. How many channels do you get if you don't have cable? 4. How much tv is a person with 4 channels likely to watch? Not enough to miss it.
It seems the quoted octogenarian was under the mind-controlling influence of the television robot, and was in fact liberated from the madness by the Geekologie Writer, not simply cut off from the airwaves
11. frank - June 14, 2009 12:15 PM
Just wait till they transfer all housecats from analogue to digital. Old ladies will start hanging themselves.
12. Gando - June 16, 2009 5:49 PM
Who cares if the tv doesn't work anymore for a couple of days? Don't we have internet to entertain us?
13. Darth - June 16, 2009 5:52 PM
You can visit concerts,cinemas and so on.There're lots of other things to do.