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Can't get cable out here in the boondocks. If I could, I wouldn't get it. Seems like if I had to pay that much money to watch TV, I shouldn't have to see any commercials. Some neighbors have satellite TV. It's too expensive, and, as with cable, I'd have to pay for a lot of channels I don't want along with the ones I wanted.
Bought a digital converter early last summer. Was going to get a second one before the second coupon expired, but I couldn't really afford the expense that month.
Use a large indoor UHF antenna. Sometimes the signals are bad, but not usually. The trouble is, if the signal fluctuates much the picture stops or I get a blue screen, windy and stormy weather affect the digital signal more than it ever did the analog.
In this area, all or most of the analog signals were shut off on the original Feb 17 deadline. The stations simply couldn't afford to keep broadcasting two signals for months more. It would have put our public TV station over 50,000 dollars in debt. After all of the analog signals went off, the digital signals of all of the stations became MUCH clearer.
Fulton Co, Illinois
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