KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Fay knocked out power to hundreds of homes forcing residents to rely on battery powered televisions and radios for information. Channel 9's Eric Rasmussen found out that those TV's won't work after next February's digital conversion.

Willie Wills bought the yellow battery-powered TV 2 years ago as an extra safety measure, if a storm ever knocked out power and needed an access to information.

"I've never had to use it, thank goodness, and I hope I still don't have to use it," said Willis.

In February 2009, all TV stations will only broadcast a digital signal, making older televisions, battery-powered or otherwise, obsolete.

"I'm going to have to throw it in the garbage," he said.

Stores have already started carrying digital battery powered televisions and some cost nearly $200. Wills said he has no choice but to go buy a new one.

"If I get a hurricane at the house and the power goes out I rely on that, but since things are going to change over in a few months, I'm going to have to go out and buy another one," he said.

The Radio Shack employees that Eyewitness news spoke with, said it only has one model of the digital portable Televisions, but it should have a few others by Christmas.