{"id":4160,"date":"2008-01-02T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/01\/02\/condescended\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:22:00","slug":"condescended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/01\/02\/condescended\/","title":{"rendered":"Condescended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping that now that we&#8217;re just about a year away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtvtransition.org\/\" title=\"DTVTransition.org\">transition to all-digital TV broadcasting<\/a> and the government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dtv2009.gov\/\" title=\"TV Converter Program Website\">TV Converter Program<\/a> is up and running, we&#8217;ll finally start to get some information and reviews on the various TV converter boxes that are (or will be) available.<\/p>\n<p>I just applied for my two coupons towards the boxes, and then started searching on some of the listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dtv2009.gov\/Boxes.aspx\" title=\"TV Converter Box Coupon Program Website: Eligible Converter Boxes\">eligible converter boxes<\/a> to see what they&#8217;re like. Unfortunately, much of what I found was brief little snippets from &uuml;ber-geek and audiophile sites with <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/ces-preview-2008\/lgs-zenith-dtt900-converter-competes-with-rca-for-grandmas-40-coupon-322560.php\" title=\"Gizmodo: LG's Zenith DTT900 Converter Competes with RCA for Grandma's $40 Coupon\">comments like this<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;one of the &#8220;digital switchover&#8221; converter boxes your stubborn granny can buy early next year with her $40 coupon from the government, in lieu of <em>getting a new goddamn TV<\/em>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, sure, that&#8217;s from Gizmodo. Still &#8212; not <em>every<\/em> geek out there works for Microsoft and has a gazillion expendable dollars&#8230;<em>or<\/em> sees the need to toss out a perfectly good (and, actually, very nice) TV set that works fine, aside from not having the ATSC tuner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still &#8212; not _every_ geek out there works for Microsoft and has a gazillion expendable dollars&#8230;_or_ sees the need to toss out a perfectly good (and, actually, very nice) TV set that works fine, aside from not having the ATSC tuner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038,2037],"tags":[65,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}