The government is spending $5 million to let owners know that on Feb. 18, 2009, tens of millions of televisions that are not equipped to receive digital signals will become junk, and they have also committed $1.5 billion for viewers to spend on converter boxes that will translate digital signals for older televisions.

Just so the government knows--although I doubt any of the 513,000 elected officials in this country is paying attention to me (Geez...isn't that about one out of every 500 people including children and dead Democratic voters; add in a few million appointed and hired and bribed government officials and sycophants and it's no wonder we don't produce anything except regulations--almost everyone is working for the government, even thousands of illegal aliens.), my TV is already junk, but it is because of the absolutely mindless programming available. My TV remains off except for an occasional showing of NOVA, and when I want to watch DVD's, which invariably are film noir or comedies of the '40's and 50's. Throw in a few music performances and a thousand good books and I can easily survive 2009; I won't even notice when the signal goes dead. That's my "reality show."