This is in response to the story appearing in the Feb. 15 Sun Journal that clarified the deal about the switch from analog to digital television signals. The article was very informative and confirms my suspicions about the converter box.

I bought a converter box but didn’t hook it up because of my concern about the location where I live. The Sun Journal article did clarify that location is important to receive the digital signal. My complex is among trees and in a valley, though I do live in a second-floor apartment.

I ended up going with cable television. Thankfully, I could afford to do so. My complex would not allow attaching a roof-top antenna or satellite dish.

My concern is for those people who cannot afford cable television and now, because of the digital technology, are facing no television reception. Will they be stuck with only radio? Isn’t going with roof antennas and back to radio kinda stepping back into the past? Technology is supposed to be the way of the future. What goes?

I think government officials did not clearly think it all out. They didn’t do their research well. It almost seems as though they were in cahoots with the cable and satellite companies.

Now that I have cable television, I love it, but I have a converter box that I cannot use. I live on a fixed income and it was an expensive deal to buy something I can no longer use.

Brandy Thomas, Wilton