The Switch to Digital TV or: Shut up about it already!

These days it's hard to avoid the news that in the US, analog TV will be going away forever in February of 2009, and if you're one of the very few people who doesn't have cable or an HDTV, you'll have to get a digital converter. Ok, I get it, but I'm really tired of hearing about it everywhere I turn. Flyers in electronics stores? Fine. However, my local ABC station now puts this information in their morning news ticker every day, and the other night the Fox affiliate scrolled the information over the top of their prime-time programming in the style normally reserved for huge breaking news. For God's sake, this isn't happening for another 10 months, and the few old people and hermits who would be affected will probably be just as clueless when February 2009 rolls around.

Is this starting to annoy anyone else? Do you know anyone who still uses only rabbit ears for their television viewing?

/rant

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Don't you live in middle of nowhere Idaho? Can you actually pick up more than 2 TV stations?

There's nowhere I can't reach.