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Lifehacker – Say Goodbye to Analog Broadcasts: Your Last Minute Guide – HDTV

It won’t help you today, but for nothing more than historical reference, a guide to the digital changeover.

If nothing else, it is a passing of an age for a lot of us. I was about ten or eleven when we got some form of cable and was pretty adapt in the manipulation of rabbit ears and whatever else you needed to get a signal. Living in Galva and being cable-less was always a trick, especially since our nearest signals were over 40 miles away – in opposite directions. You could get two NBCs and ABCs – or none at all.

Just a couple weeks ago we lost the cable for the better part of a day and whipped out the rabbit ears. Now, we won’t have the option unless we go buy one of the new boxes I guess.

And so this passes, along with rotary phones, playing in the streets until dark without fear of pedophile rapists, and high beams you click on with your feet.

I guess I’m getting old or something.

I can watch TV again!

As many of you know, I can count the amount of television shows I can actually stomach watching on both hands – if you spread it out across a whole decade. So, since I’m a big fan of FX’s The Shield and not much else (though I enjoy Monk whenever I can catch it), I have currently been in a major slump as far as any potential Nielsen rating hirings go.

Tonight, I can safely add another show to the list. It is Peacemakers with Tom Berenger. Kind of a murder mystery/CSI-like/western concept. Some of that usually bores the daylights out of me but this seems to work. So I’ll give it a try. Enough of one to suggest it to all of you to watch as well.