(Mobile, Ala) - June 9 - The switch to DTV
only affects a small part of the population."The only people that need to get a converter box are people that watch an analog TV, one of the older square TV's, certainly not the new flat panel widescreen over the air televisions, so analog set, over the air - that means you're using antenna, rabbit ears or on your rooftop, not cable or satellite, and from our calculation, that's about 11% of the population, so not a huge number of people still in that boat," explains Megan Pollock of the Consumer Electronics Association.Here's the biggest problem - getting information to those who tend to be most affected."We have seen getting the message to seniors and disabled communities may be difficult because they may not be online, may not be in some of the places where the message is getting out right now," explains Pollock.If you or someone you know needs a converter box, it won't cost too much.
We'll recap that process next week.
