I guess the commercials and all the warnings we see on television about the switch to digital TV can finally take a break, because we no longer have an analog signal. I know June the 12th was our day locally when all TV stations would make the switch. I think some stations and other parts of the country may be a little different than my area, but from what I understand now, everyone is viewing a digital signal or they aren’t viewing anything on their television screens right now. Is your TV not showing a picture right now? If that is the case, you may have to buy a converter box or make the switch to Direct TV Satellite.

Your local cable company will have the digital signal already in place. For those of you that are Direct TV customers, you should be fine with the new digital signal too. The people that aren’t using satellite or cable will now be forced to make the switch or there is converter boxes that can help make the transition to digital television. They are a lot of people living in rural areas that were still using an antenna to get their TV signal and it’s no longer possible to do this. I’m sure many of these folks are unhappy and it does seem a little unfair to them.

I do love the programming that is available on satellite TV and if you are in the market for an upgrade, I would suggest going with the satellite dish. Satellite television is much better than what it use to be. You don’t need the 8 foot dish in your yard anymore and the actual dish is much smaller. It’s just a little bigger than a large pizza and doesn’t take up much room in the yard or on the roof. We did have our dish on the roof, but we decided to move it into the yard, so that trees would not be growing in it’s signal path anytime soon. You rarely lose your signal these days when bad storms move in, but you shouldn’t have your television on when the really bad storms are around anyways. Satellite Directv is better than cable in my opinion, because they offer more channels and the price is cheaper each month. I do hope your TV is currently working, but if you do need to get cable or satellite to start watching TV again, I would go with satellite as my choice.