This reminds me of promises several years back, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that choosing the right Medicare drug plan would be a piece Wouldn’t this ad campaign be better directed at herĪdult children? Aren’t they the ones likely to install the converter box, arrange cable service or buy their parents a new TV? The white-haired woman in the public service advertisement is chirpy but - no disrespect intended - sounds to me like she hasn’t a clue. Old Age thanks you all for the clarification.] For further information, see the transition Web site. Out, particularly in reference to a misleading headline, any television without cable or satellite service will still require an antenna to pick up the signal, even with a converter box or digital tuner. Necessary instead will be either a digital-to-analog converter box, a subscription to cable or satellite TV or the purchase of a new television set with a digital tuner. Over-the-air broadcast from a roof-top antenna. 17, 2009, sets like these will no longer work nor will those that rely on

The visual centerpiece of the ad is a white-haired woman with her old television set, rabbit-ears and all. Will rabbit-ear TV antennae become collectors’ items? (David Gray/Reuters)

Craig analog to digital converter box