Coping Without TV

In my post of February 19th I related that with the switch to digital television we are unable to receive any TV stations.  We did not watch much TV anyway so it hasn’t been difficult to adjust.  What we have found is numerous internet sites where we can watch news videos, various episodes of popular TV shows, and much to our enjoyment episodes of classic TV programs from the past.

I found that I can watch the NBC evening news with Brian Williams and I don’t have to be concerned if I’m done with my work outside.  I can access it at my convenience, at MSNBC.MSN.COM.  There are even additional segments that don’t make it into the 30 minute TV broadcast.

CBS has Katie Couric and the evening news at CBSNEWS.COM.  ABC has their news programs, including the evening world news with Charles Gibson, at ABCNEWS.GO.COM.

 

For entertainment there are a number of sites available.  One that has quite a number of movies, TV program episodes and “classic TV” is HULU.com.  Pictured here is Raymond Burr in his role of Ironside.

Another “classic” that I watched an episode of last night is The Rockford Files.  A series that we watched years ago, and enjoyed, was MacGyver.  Almost all the episodes of all 7 seasons are available on cbs.com/video. 

If you can’t find anything “fit to watch” on TV try the internet.  There are many more sites than what I have mentioned that have movies and TV programs available without charge.

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Anybody Wanna Buy a Digital TV Converter Box?

We live in a rural area in South Central Kentucky.  There are no TV stations less than 45-55 miles away from us, however with the analog TV we could receive 3 stations.  Anticipating the switch to digital I purchased a converter box last Summer.  I set it up and could get only a “No Signal” display, not a single station would come in.  Thinking that the box was defective I took it back and exchanged it.  Still nothing but the “No Signal” display.  Thinking that perhaps when the final switch over came there would be a change  I contacted one of the stations by e-mail.  I was told that if I received analog I should be able to receive digital.  However, when I went to the AntennaWeb.org website and put in my address and location I received the message “There are no digital stations predicted to serve this location.” 

Yeah, I could subscribe to “cable” through our local telephone company but for the very limited amount of TV we watched it isn’t worth it.

The first picture below was taken Monday evening, February 16th, before the switch to digital and the second was taken today after the switch.  I guess we will be spending even more time on the computer!

Note, this is the same channel.  As I asked in the title, anybody wanna buy a digital TV converter box?

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