Next year television is going to change. You’ll need to have a specially adapted television and/or special equipment from some big conglomerate you actually have elected to pay for the privilege of watching more than six or seven networks that used to arrive freely from the public airwaves.
Nobody has mentioned, though, that portable television will be the market most strongly affected by this change. How do you take a converter or cable connection to the beach with you to watch the game? Your little portable Viewguy or that nice little set you prefer to use in the RV won’t work, if the information coming out in the media is right.
And are the people who don’t have the money for high definition going to be discriminated against when they see only semi enhanced images on their old standby set?
How much will service fees go up when the cable companies have to switch off analog next year?
Yeah, I’m stirring the pot of contention. I’m an American with a limited income, and that’s what I do when I have a question. Instead of a soapbox, maybe I should stand on some old discarded portable television.
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