Dec 27 2008
Converter Boxes
Oh my hell. Who thunk up the idea to have digital TV? My regular TV was just fine. You’re watching Extreme Makeover, for the good Lord’s sake – why does it have to have a crisp picture?
I’m telling you this is a money-making ploy like almost everything else that happens in this world.
Take the converter box. I don’t WANT a new TV. I don’t WANT cable TV. I want to be a hillbilly who only has 8 channels. Leave me alone!
No. I have to buy a converter box (see my other blog … the link is over somewhere to the right of my Kerrie’s Peeves page … about the experience of BUYING this thing).
Back up. First I have to secure a COUPON for it. Then buy it. Then hook it up. Then deal with ANOTHER remote control. Then try to figure out how to tape a channel on my dinosaur VCR when I’m away from home when there are FIVE Channel 16s. It’s not possible.
But we get Qubo (like Cartoon Network, only cleaner) out of it, so I’m also thankful.
