Digital TV & Converter Boxes

[Pedal Wench]

It's probably a bad assumption that you will be able to get online in a major emergency. You have to have electricity or functioning phonelines for that.

I second a good weather radio or even one of those little battery powered TVs.

I live alone and have 3 TVs.

That's actually an issue -- your current little battery-powered TV will not work after the conversion. (Yet another shameless blog plug:http://bitstream.soundandvisionmag.c...gton-nc-t.html)
They do make battery-powered converter boxes for those.

[SouthernBelle]

That's why I haven't gotten one yet!

I wonder if anyone has put out a digital one yet?

[tulip]

A radio will give you the information you need. You can get a wind-up radio with or without little solar panels. No electricy, no batteries, no converter box.

[Aggie_Ama]

A radio will give you the information you need. You can get a wind-up radio with or without little solar panels. No electricy, no batteries, no converter box.

And you get a bit of exercise too! We have one of those crank flashlights, good lord if you let it get low you are getting a workout to get light.