TODAY'S NEWS: We in the US are about to go through the Digital Television Transition, on or before June 12th. I thought that if we already had cable TV, we wouldn't need to do anything else, but our cable company sent out information saying that we needed a free converter box to receive channels in a certain range. So we got some. Does anyone know if these boxes are part of the Mind-Control features of HDTV, or are they harmless?