Phone Bank Day Two
I hope you’ve been watching our 6 and 7 PM News this week as we have our phone bank up for DTV questions. I’ve had a great time talking to “my kind of people”. Everyone has been so nice and and grateful for getting real information they can undersdtand. Tonights highlights were amazing, and I’m expecting more fun this week. Yeah, I’m on the front row being interviewed “Live!” from time to time making a fool of myself, but if it helps, let it be!
Most callers do not have a computer. “I wouldn’t know how to operate it if I had it” said one very nice lady, and it’s a reminder that my mom isn’t the only person in the world with no internet! I’m surrounded by folks that really can’t relate to “no computer” households in this Twitter-Facebook-MySpace-cellular mosh pit of digital gotta know data junkies. Seriously though, do you really want to know my current location and mood every minute of the day?
Optomistic! My current mood is good, even though I ran out of happy pills and am battling manic depression and severe mood swings due to the full moon.
Oh wait, back to the topic at hand. I was surprised at the number of folks that had their boxes, and were waiting until February to open it and connect it up. WAKE UP! We are less than 100 days away and the DTV signals have been on the air for almost 10 years! We went on the air in May of 2000, so hook those boxes up now and see what you get.
Those of you that have been following this blog know by now I forced my 70-something Mother into the digital age. This past Sunday she was sitting quietly with the TV off when I arrived, fed me roast beef, potatoes, carrots, cabbage and the best sweet tea on the planet. Normally, we tend to sit and pass the time catching up on gas prices, obituraies and the entire family falls asleep in unison. Life is good in the country! This weekend we fought sleep as my sister wasn’t there for lunch, and Mom turned on the TV and the converter box by herself. With no prompting from me at all! She flipped through the channels and when WCTI froze, blocked, and glitched, she quietly went to the next channel searching something to put us to sleep by. Not a bad word did she utter about the new fangled box, except how to turn the volume down. We still can’t find the instructions on the universal remote for her TV, DVD and VCR to program the box into, so she gets mixed up which remote to use for what, but she’s trying and that’s what it’s all about right now.
try it. If it doesn’t work perfectly, you can still use the analog stations to watch TV, but you need to try the digital first. Now, not later, and if you are having reception problems address it now while the weather is nice.
One last point a nice couple in North Raleigh brought up was the hills and trees were causing issue at their house. I covered in one of my blog entries that the main reason we picked our homes were the main problems for DTV: hills, trees and you name it. We joked they’d have to move to get better reception, but honestly, I can’t guarantee everyone will be able to continue to receive free TV. Both nights though, I talked with a couple of folks that live in a motor home. Man that’s the way to retire! I envy those people because if you can’t get good reception, move your house!
Seriously, we’re going to be answering the phones all this week between 6 and 8 PM, so call in and we’ll be glad to answer your questions and help any way we can.! Here’s tonight’s package by Donald Jones, which I personally taught everything he needed to know about DTV:
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