Non-Digital = useless?

[peverett]

You can already buy the digital tuners for less than $100. I have one from Newegg.com. I use this with old, tube type tvs with no issues(other than poor reception sometimes). As Bill mentioned, you need an external antenna connection on the TV. You may also need a composite video to NTSC RF converter(available at WalMart here). As also mentioned, the tuners are available on Ebay also, I just won one.

Here in Austin, Texas at least, only PBS broadcasts more than one HDTV channel (and only part time at that). The networks only broadcast their main channel on HDTV at this point. The other channels are blank.

As to cable, I have heard the date 2012 mentioned as the convert date, but am not sure if this is date is true. Time Warner is presently broadcasting ads saying not to worry(for what ever this is worth).