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24
Feb
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - We’ve been talking about the transition to DTV–or digital television–a lot lately. It’s what we’re calling the Big Switch. Starting next February…
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21
Feb
One week before U.S. households receive the first of thousands of $40 digital converter box coupons, Wal-Mart is stocked and ready with these small converter box units designed to keep home analog TVs receiving a digital signal. Today 3,400 Wal- Mart stores carry a new Magnavox digital converter box, with a retail price of $49.87.
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15
Feb
QUAD CITIES — Digital-to-analog converter boxes are making their way onto store shelves around the Quad Cities this week, and local retailers say they’re fielding countless questions from customers about whether they need one and how they work.
Once February 17, 2009 rolls around, local broadcasters will stop their analog over-the-air transmissions and broadcast only in [...]
12
Feb
If you haven’t heard the term ‘converter box’ yet, don’t worry– you will.
With the clock slowly ticking down to the mandated analog-to-digital conversion date of February 17, 2009, ‘converter boxes’ will be featured on television ads, newspaper circulars and front-and-center in electronics stores.
So– what are they?
Digital converter boxes take a digital television signal and …
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12
Feb
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) have asked the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) to allow consumers to reapply for DTV-to-analog coupons if they fail to redeem them before the 90-day expiration date.
NTIA is handing out up to two coupons per household, each worth $40 toward the boxes, which will allow analog-only [...]
