The digital TV transition will affect many older viewers. There are loads of stats to back this up, but I know it firsthand based on all of the phone calls I get about it. The funny folks at Fox’s Talkshow with Spike Feresten know it, too, based on the unbelievably hilarious clip they put together about it: “Forget it, old people. No more TV for you starting in 2009.” The fake PSA shows a kind, old lady completely flummoxed by the technobabble associated with the transition — “digital” this and “analog” that. She tries to microwave her DTV converter box, holds it up to her ear like a phone and dons a hard hat to climb up on the roof. The funniest bit, though, is the clip’s frequent recommendation that she go online to get answers. At one point, she asks: “Will all of this make Jack Benny come back?”

Check it out here.

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