INSIDE TV & RADIO Attention Antenna Aficionados: You Need a New TV or Converter Soon
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By TIM CUPRISIN  Consider today's column a warning.  If nothing changes, your old TV may not be working two years from today, thanks to a Feb. 17, 2009, federal deadline for TV stations to switch from the traditional analog method of broadcasting to digital technology.
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Attention owners of primitive TVs: If you still use an antenna to watch "American Idol," your picture will disappear at midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, unless you buy something called a digital converter box.
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Well into the second decade of the television era, the machines still conked out, a lot. "TV's on the fritz again," folks would say. There was such a thing as a TV repairman, who would come to your house. Now, TVs work.
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You could sum up the state of TV at the International Consumer Electronics Show this way: New delivery methods will let people watch pretty much anything, anytime, on gorgeous flat-panel displays.
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Rooftop antennas are back in vogue. Many homeowners are trading up to expensive television sets and hooking them up to old-fashioned antennas that can pull in the digital and high-definition signals of local broadcasters for free.
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Here's what's new with the Apple TV device that makes it much more useful.
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Times are a-changing in TV Land, and this company is on the cutting edge.
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Millions of Americans will need digital converter boxes when television stations make the switch from analog to digital signals in February 2009. Demand will skyrocket and companies that will supply those converters hope they're up to the task.
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Q: I know that analog TV is going off the air next February and that I can keep using my old analog set with a digital converter box, but I can't find any at a reasonable price. So what good is a $40 coupon from the government for the purchase of a converter?
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By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe  Feb. 25--Rooftop antennas are back in vogue.   Many homeowners are trading up to expensive television sets and hooking  them up to old-fashioned antennas that can pull in the digital and  high-definition signals of local broadcasters for free.
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With over-the-air television broadcasts switching from analog to digital in just over a year, converter boxes are expected to be among the hot devices on display at next week's CES.
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The first converter boxes to help consumers cope when over-the-air TV signals switch from analog to digital broadcasting will debut next week at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
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But should consumers be as keen? IFA 07 Almost every TV maker exhibiting at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin last week used the event to launch LCD TVs capable of a picture refresh rate of 100 images a second. You couldn't move for bright-eyed booth staff there to demo 100Hz technology and persuade us to replace our LCD TVs already.â¦
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Will Sears shoppers go for the high-definition television? Stay tuned.
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Find a way to tune out advertisers, and they'll find a new way to tune you back in.
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First TVs, new printers, long-lasting inks, and projectors are targeted \
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Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, television stations will stop broadcasting analog signals. An older, non-digital television without cable or satellite service will need a special converter box to receive a picture.