<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Nov 29, 2007, at 5:17 AM, Tim Collier wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">It is true that after 2009, anybody who still has an analog TV will need to purchase a converter as all TV signals will be broadcast in HD.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Actually, I think that we can still use our old TV sets with a cable or satellite set top box, at least for awhile after analog broadcasts cease. </DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One thing to remember though is that you can purchase an antenna that will pick up local stations that are now broadcasting in HD and get them directly on your Mac or HDTV. Locally, in Miami, CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC and PBS broadcast HDTV signals that I can pick up with the 'rabbit ears' type HDTV antenna and get the signal on the Mac, I forget what software I use.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>Are you in the northern part of Miami? I tried two or three different brands of rabbit ears, including one with an amplifier, and none of them gave me a good signal to my EyeTV 500 on a PowerMac dual G5/2.0. I'm in Miami-Dade too, but in South Miami, about a mile east of Dadeland. I know that the broadcast towers are north of Miami, up near the county line in order to cover both Miami-Dade and Broward (Ft. Lauderdale) counties. So, I'm going to have to get a roof top antenna. Now that I think about it, maybe my problem was that my Mac just wasn't fast enough to keep up. I never tried it on a TV.</DIV><DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>