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soon, when what they REALLY mean is that DTV has already been here but just that high-powered ANALOG TV will just STOP now?

See, what I mean is that the stupid thing is that a lot of them are making it sound like this new thing called digital TV isn’t already happening, and that on Feb. 17, that’s when this will start. But in reality, it’s already been here for a while now. What they need to refer to this switchover–really a switch-OFF–is ONLY that (full-powered) ANALOG tv is being switched OFF because of digital TV (so the old air space can be used for other signals). So why don’t they refer to this as more of an ANALOG TV SWITCH-OFF rather than “when digital TV starts” (while still just mentioning that it’s because digital TV is already here)?

Come back and see my responses to yours, please, okay? Thanks.
Hi, Wink Cat,

Yeah, maybe so… but if dumb people know what digital TV is, why wouldn’t they know what analog–digital’s opposite–is?

The ANALOG TV BROADCAST TURN-OFF has been delayed by Congress from February 17 to June 12, 2009, optionally.
Well, First Dragon, there is a lot of good TV that comes on just plain free-to-air, which will keep coming in a digital-only form, so if I were you and you didn’t want to subscribe to cable TV or satellite TV, I would look at either:

1. buying a converter box for your old TV, or
2. buying a new TV.

By the way, if you aren’t going to subscribe to cable TV or satellite TV, and you were to want to record TV and the new TV didn’t have a built-in recorder and you weren’t going to use a recorder that had its own digital tuner (such as a standalone VCR, which this is the case with), then you’d need a converter box for THAT, anyway.