Orginally Posted January 13, 2009
Last night, my kitchen TV, which is not hooked up to Directv, stopped broadcasting, and started playing a message over and over. The message stated something along the lines of; “If you are receiving this message then you are not ready for the digital switch. When all the broadcasters switch to digital in just a few weeks you will no longer be able to receive broadcasting. In order to recieve television programming after the switch to digital you will need to purchase a digital-ready TV, sign up for a digital cable, or satiellite service, or purchase a digital reciever. To find out more about the switch to digital, where you can purchase a new television, or how to recieve a coupon for a digital reciever call ----"...then it gave me a number and a website I could check out, in order to get in line with the rest of the country.
A while back, Jerrid and I were watching the news and heard a report about the switch to digital. Apparently, according to this particular news report- which I might add was given with the same sense of urgency given to a report about an inpending diseaster (like a hurricane or tornado.)- our country is just not ready for the switch to digital!! OH NO!! It seems that those who have not gotten prepared for this “historic event”, which will of course bring a better quality of life to us all, seem to be areas where people struggle financial, or those areas hit hard by job losses due to the current economic situation in our country. Seems these misinformed individuals have been choosing to buy groceries, heat the house, or pay the electric bill instead of buying assorceries for their television! Can you believe these uneducated gits! Seems that the network exec dudes and some government officials are bringing this problem up to the new president, suggesting that he delay the switch to digital. Giving people more time to be “properly educated” by those wonderful commercials, you know the ones that say “36 days until the switch to digital, Are YOU ready?" And also to put out more coupons for those receivers (seems that people have either not taken advantage of their opportunity for coupons or haven’t used the government issued coupon that they had received.) So, apparently, the way to save the country from the great, great tragedy of not being able to watch TV is to spend more of the taxpayers’ dollars. Which, frankly, makes a lot of since, when we are in such a seriously bad situation economically right now. The government issued "coupons" are actually only like $40 off, meaning that consumer has to shell out at least $10 or $20. There are actually people in this country, probably in your own town or neighborhood, going to bed tonight hungry, but let’s go buy a new TV! The reporters acted as if people were so uneducated and misinformed not because they were getting prepared for digital. They sounded more concerned about people not being able to watch TV then they do when they talk about people who can't pay their gas bill to keep their homes heated! When the subject of the advantages of digital was brought up, we were informed that the picture is SO much clearer. I am so excited, because you know, nowadays when we Americans watch our big, color televisions, the picture is so blurry.
Meanwhile, I had the misfortune last night to have my T.V. on when Access Hollywood came on talking about the Golden Globes. Lisa Rinna was asked if Hollywood felt bad about the money they spent on clothes, jewelry, and award shows when the rest of the country was being hit so hard by the bad economy. I loved her response. You see, she is HELPING those people. As we all know, when times are tough people turn to Hollywood for glitz and glamour to make us feel better. And I know that somewhere in this country, there was someone who was going to bed hungry last night, but after that person saw Lisa Rinna in her pretty, pretty dress, they were hungry no more! Thank You, Thank You, Hollywood, once again, you have fixed all our problems!
Last night, after listening to the voice informing us about how we weren't ready for the switch to digital, Jerrid had a brillant idea. "Why don't we just turn it off?" he suggested. We did just that, the house was quiet, we talked to each other about our days, it was so relaxing and freeing.
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