Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/switch-to-digital-tv-prompts-concerns-calls-for-delay Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The impending switch to digital TV has caused confusion in some households and prompted Congress to consider delaying the switchover even further over concerns that the message has not yet reached some important groups. Kwame Holman reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: And now the final battle in the revolutionary switch to digital television. Kwame Holman reports. CUSTOMER: Would that fit on any old TV? Will that work on any old TV? BROADCAST WORKER: If you don't subscribe to cable, satellite, or another paid TV service… CUSTOMER: I don't have neither one of them. BROADCAST WORKER: … you would need a converter box. KWAME HOLMAN: Workers for the nation's TV broadcasters have spent months traveling the country delivering a blunt warning to TV viewers. BROADCAST WORKER: It shouldn't matter the age of the TV. You need an antenna, and you need a converter box. KWAME HOLMAN: Their message is that older televisions that use rabbit ears to get TV channels over the air soon will receive no signal at all. At several events around Washington, D.C., recently, there was continued confusion about the federally mandated end of the traditional TV signal. BROADCAST WORKER: Do you have any questions about the transition? CUSTOMER: What transition? BROADCAST WORKER: The digital television transition.