I got our coupons months ago. They are still in the envelope. I applied for them over the phone as soon as the gov opened its toll free number.
But we are procrastinating getting the converter boxes.

Hubby doesn't watch much broadcast tv. He likes his old tv w/ built in DVD player. We have three tvs like that -- with built in DVD players. (We are only married 3 years and had to combine our tvs into one living space. )

He says that we won't use the coupons -- just get one new tv. (We'll see. It seems like a big expense to watch the same carp.)

A friend of mine and also my father recently bought brand new HDTVs.

My friend gets cable and likes her tv. It takes forever for her to change channels -- she does not mind.

My father does not have cable. He was very disappointed with the HDTV because he got fewer channels than he usually gets (-- I think that this depends on where people live.) He got fed up and gave the tv to my mom to put in her exercise room for her exercise dvds.

By Feb, more stations will be sending out the HD signal and we will have more stations with decent reception.

Mari