Yearly TV Licence? ...Really?

[marion11111]

marion11111 trying to grasp all this:

Well, my mother is most certainly techniologically challenged and 
now I'm beginning to think I might be too.  So, some areas are 
already broadcasting digital signals over the air and these can be 
picked up with the box, but if most channels are still analog then 
the box will screw them up?  Did I understand correctly?  Arrgh.  
Like someone said - leave it to the government to make it REALLY 
complicated. 

Of course, I bought the boxes already due to the (false) scare that 
they might run out and then with the 90 day expiration, etc.  My 
mother, being of the Depression Era generation, was actaully 
concerned about my buying these boxes already in case she dies 
before February!!!! No, she does not have a terminal illness.  
Really, this is the generation that is going to get caught in this 
whole mess since they are too frugal to pay for cable or buy a fancy 
new TV when the old one works just fine.

In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Lee Truslow 
<specialcritters at ...> wrote:
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> I just ordered 2 coupons yesterday, so they definitely still have 
them. A friend was telling me today that she went back to her old 
system because her area has only a couple of digital channels, so 
you might want to check before you leave if you're hooking up 
somebody who's technologically challenged.
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marion11111 at ...: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:36:11 +0000Subject: [HPFGU-
OTChatter] Re: Yearly TV Licence? ...Really?
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> Did somebody say their parents are already using the convertor 
box? My mom has two that I bought her with the coupons, but I 
thought we had to wait until next February to hook them up. If they 
really are working now, I'll stop over to her place this week and 
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