Help me out here. Six months from Saturday, the sky will fall and TVs will go dark as analog transmissions end and all broadcasting becomes digital.  If you’ve watched any TV at all for the last six months, you surely have been overloaded with exclamatory crawls and news segments making sure you’re aware of this — and it seems difficult to believe that anybody hasn’t gotten the message. But….

I have a feeling that on Feb. 9, some older, antenna-using folks will still be blindsided. Am I wrong? Even for the savvier, I think there’s still confusion over such things as how VCRs will work with converter boxes.

So I’d be interested in hearing from antenna-users, from people who have cable/satellite but not all TVs are hooked up to it, from people who’ve already received their coupons, bought their converter boxes and maybe even installed them. If you post comments here and give your email address on the form (which won’t be published), I’ll get back to you; or you can email me directly: gpennington@post-dispatch.com.

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