Doomsday Warning for Analog TV

We love our ancient portables with rabbit ears and were shocked to hear that there is now a government mandate to make us convert to digital signals by February 17, 2009. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration claims that every household will be eligible to receive two coupons worth $40.00 each for converter boxes, which must be requested between January 1 and March 31 of the same year.

Congress has come up with $1.5 billion to pay for the coupon program and has set aside a portion of the funds for households that only have over-the-air TV. The FCC has said that as of June 2005 there were 15.4 million households in the U.S. that received such signals, leaving experts to think that there won’t be nearly enough money for the boxes. We suggest enterprising entrepreneurs should get on the ball now and try to come up with a cheaper kind of gadget, just in case they run out while we are waiting for ours.

 

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