The DTV Transition is Happening Right Now

LOL like the people who aren't ready are the type of people you would find posting on a blog.

A year and a half ago, when they were warning us of the original upcoming deadline of digital TV, there was a great sale on large Olevia TVs at Big Lots, and I bought one even though I dreaded actually getting it working based on the long, technical coverage on local news programs that made it sound like rocket science. Then Thursday, just hours before that second and final deadline, I could put it off no longer and finally struggled to get the TV out of the box and properly set up. As it turned out, just getting it out of the box turned out to be the hard part. I just plugged it in, connected it to the antenna I was already using, turned it on, and it immediately gave me flawless reception on dozens of stations-- just figuring out how to navigate all those stations was another issue, of course.

One of the reasons I was reluctant to try to make the change had been that news reports stated that digital reception either worked, or it didn't-- poor reception resulted in no picture at all. But even the few stations that were snowy on my analog set came in crystal clear on the digital set, and gave me dozens of new, vivid channels to woo me away from the work I should be doing... may I muster the fortitude to be productive. Ah, the insidious lure of technology!

Being only a couple million out of the hundreds of millions of people in the US that didn't switch in time, I'd say it went pretty well. And like bdhoro87 said; why would those people be online reading this if they haven't switched?