Middle America's Worldview

I had known the new cable standards were to be in place next year. All analog signals will go away starting next year. This means, if you have a tube tv, you will not be able to pick up non-digital cable any longer. If your tv is old enough ( like mine ), then you will be required to

• Buy a converter to pick up the digital signals or
  
• Buy the new digital tv's
  

I was in Walmart the other week, inquiring about all this. Since they did not currently have this converter, I was curious how much this was going to be, he looked it up on walmart.com. At that time, the converters were not even online availible.

Considering the lowest cost digital tv I can see is around 200-300 bucks for a 17 inch, I think its a rip-off.

Another aspect I have conveyed to others, some may not be thinking about is this.

Once this goes into effect, our choices continue to go down. Since the free analog (picking up off those nice rabbit ears) goes away next year, this means if you don't pay, you don't see. So we are again forced to pay-per-view.

We are looking at the early black Friday ads, online. I find it funny all stores seem to be OK with these ads, except Walmart. Going to possibly take legal action Walmart? Give me a break. I would think they would desire the incentives. Not that they need any more. I can't go in there anytime of the day/night with more than enough people mlling around.

Here are some links to the ads.

Gotta Deal

Offical Black Friday