Leona Nan got the message saying her TV isn't ready for when the switch happens. At 90 years old, she's seen a lot of upgrades in the ways we're entertained -- from radio, to black and white TV, to the earliest versions of color TV. "With tubes," she said. "You had to replace tubes if your tubes went out or a tube went out, you didn't have a picture."
She never upgraded to cable or satellite TV, and like most TVs made before 2006, hers is not digital. That means she needs a digital converter box to get any signal at all after the switch in February.
Installation is pretty easy: After the "not ready" message popped up, we got to work. We opened the box, grabbed the converter, connected all the cables, found the right spot on the menu, and let the box find digital channels -- all in time to watch the very beginning of "Jeopardy."
Nan says she learned an important lesson from the test. "If I want to watch television, I better get that digital box," she said while laughing.
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