Are your aging parents ready for the 2009 digital TV switch?

Older adults may be the most vulnerable as the nation makes the change from analog TV to digital.  The date is February 17, 2009 and time is growing short.

Aging seniors depend on television for companionship, news and entertainment.  If their TV's grow dark, it could create unnecessary difficulties they really don't need to suffer through.  Television gives them a ringside seat to the outside world and without it they will be too isolated.

So what exactly is the digital change all about?

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