And nobody is writing about
the millions of analog VCRs that will end up in dumpsters because their tuners no longer work as of today. Good luck trying to get them to record from the digital signal. And double good luck trying to buy a digital recorder that comes with a tuner - every store I've visited has been out of stock since February.
All retailers assume that you'll get a free DVR from your cable company or satellite TV provider. For people like my mom who just has a rooftop antenna and will not get cable or satellite TV, they're out of luck.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
