Digital TV by 2009?

[Chad Hauris]

I remember living in Athens Ohio when I went to school there in the 90's. If you were using rabbit ears on the TV you could barely just get one channel (WOUB Public television). Could not afford to get cable then. A lot of residents had huge antenna towers to pull in stations from W.Va. or Columbus.

Saw some digital sets on display at a TV store and I wasn't impressed with the over-the-air digital picture enough to make me want to spend thousands for one. Had some artifacts to it, like you could see the picture was made out of blocks, especially when things were moving.

Requiring a convertor box for digital to analog is not the same thing as requiring everyone to subscribe to pay TV services. It is a one time charge to buy the unit...and surely their prices will drop if there is no analog TV and more people need to buy one.