A year or two ago my tv stopped getting any stations. I could not afford to fix it so I just listened to the radio ever since. This week I called the tv shop and asked him if he has a tube tester I can use. He said the tv dont have tubes no more. I told him mine does, it's a 1956 Zenith and I had it since I bought it in 57 and paid good money for it. I tested and changed tubes lots of times. Then he asks me if I got cable. I tell him hell no, just rabbit ears. Cable costs too much and I only watch the weather and sometimes the news. Thats when he said the government changed the way tv works and I need to go to walmart to buy a convertor box and the tv will work again. But then he tried to sell me a new tv and I hung up the telephone on the guy. Always somebody trying to make a fast buck.
I asked my son about it since he knows all about computers and gave me this one. He said the guy is right I got to buy that box. He said I need to first get a coupon from the government and I get the convertor for half price but the government will know what station I am watching. I dont care if they know what I watch, I just want the half price deal. Its stupid that the gov. wants to know when I watch the weather, but the gov. is stupid anyhow. Like dont they have better things to do than check what I watch on tv.
Anyhow, where do I mail a letter to the gov. to get this coupon? Anyone know?
Ralph Steiner