No TV!

The big switch to totally digital TV happens in the US today, and the LA Times says that the Los Angeles area, the place many TV producers and studios call home, is "among the nation's top slackers" in preparing for the switchover.

More than 250,000 LA area homes have still not converted, and nearly 2.8 million homes across the US will receive only blank screens on Friday if they do not get a converter box for their old analog televisions.

The article also suggests that "some people might use the transition as an opportunity to give up on broadcast television, at least temporarily."

That sounds like a pretty drastic solution!