Congress has mandated that February 17, 2009 will be the last day for full-power television stations to broadcast in analog. After that, “rabbit ear” televisions will require a digital-to-analog converter box to watch over-the-air digital broadcasts.

To help with the transition, every U.S. household is eligible to receive up to two coupons, worth $40 each, toward the purchase of eligible digital-to-analog converter boxes.

Find out all you need to know at http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html

Dumping your old TV before February’s big Digital TV Transition? MyGreenElectronics.org locates electronic recycling centers near you. It also maintains a database of “green” electronics, from televisions to fax machines.

If I make the picket signs, can we march on MTV studios?

I’ve just heard the Earth-shattering news. The headline from Variety, July 23rd:

MTV readies ‘Rocky Horror’ redux.

Lou Adler, who produced the original cult classic has joined forces with Fox Studios for the remake. Variety magazine stated that the film will “use the original screenplay by Jim Sharman and Richard O’Brien but may also include music not featured in the original.”

To fans of the original 1979 film, I don’t have to say a word to express how completely wrong this production would be. To those reading this post who have not seen the classic, I can sum up my position in seven words: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

The same argument is supported at GettheBigPicture.net, which went on to say that “it’s a phenomenon completely unto itself, an event unlike any other in its original version.”

With that debate aside, another grand question remains: who would you elect to be the new Dr. Frankenfurter?