Digital TV.
The commercials told me that the switch to digital TV would make life better. Clearer picture, better sound, yadda yadda. It said I need a digital TV converter box to be able to view the new broadcasts. So I got two of them. I hooked one up and voila! I quadrupled the number of channels I get (two to eight). Now, instead of just NBC and CBS, I now also get FOX, ABC, the CW, and three PBS stations. Yipee!
But digital TV around here is worthless. Before, when it got cloudy I would lose some picture quality in one or both of the stations I could get in. But nevertheless I could still more or less tell what was going on and I still had sound, just maybe with a touch of static. Now, with this worthless digital TV signal, I get all or nothing. If it gets cloudy, or if there are sun spots, or if there's some sort of disturbance in the force, or if there's a show I really want to tune in to, the signal cuts in and out. The picture freezes, the sound goes away all together, then the screen goes blank and I get that ominous blue box superimposed upon a black screen that says "no signal." It's friggin worthless! Sometimes, after several beers, I feel like I want to take my digital TV coverter box back to Best Buy, or to the dumbass government committee that mandated this signal change and shove it up their...nose.
Now I understand that stations may not be broadcasting at full power yet, but they damn well better start cranking it up a little...the new season of Heroes is about to start.
No comments:
Post a Comment