My Single Mom Life

I'm still checking the weekly deals at Buy.com and keep hoping that they put an hdtv antenna on sale soon, like before February 2009 when I'll absolutely need it.
It's either that or get an all new htdv like this one, a Westinghouse 46"inch LCD hdtv.

I can't afford that one, but maybe a smaller one at some point.
But that one is rather nice.
Whatever tv I do get, it would need an Integrated ATSC / NTSC Tuner to be able to pick up all the new hdtv signals.
The whole reason I need a new tv or a stronger hdtv antenna is because of the mandatory switch to hdtv that all tv stations are doing.
I kind of understand the whole thing, but not really.
I don't understand why people are being forced to upgrade to hdtv.
Not everyone has cable or can afford cable or satellite, so all of the people like me who can't, are being forced to by new tvs, new antennas, and that converter box, which I have, but it doesn't pick up all the channels.
As a matter of fact, it barely picks up any.
So maybe by February I'll win the lotto or something so I can afford a new tv like that one, or someone will put the kind of antenna on sale that I need.
I need an indoor/outdoor amplified UHF/VHF/HDTV antenna, that can be mounted anywhere, and hold really strong.
I only have wooden shutters on the outside of my cement house, I can't really mount it on the cement, so I would need it to hold to the shutters, and be able to run the cable through the window somehow.
I'll keep looking and hoping for one.