TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Feds (Taxpayers) to Subsidize Digitial -> Analog TV Boxes

Feds (Taxpayers) to Subsidize Digitial -> Analog TV Boxes

Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:19:41 EDT

( no word in the press release as to how much power these will
use. And they'll still badly mangle any attempt at recording.)

" ... WASHINGTON, D.C.

The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) announced today the final rule for
the Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupon Program (coupon program)
designed to help consumers continue receiving free, over-the-air
television when full-power television stations cease analog
broadcasting after February 17, 2009, as authorized in the Digital
Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 (the Act). ... "

Starting Jan. 1, 2008, all U.S. households will be eligible to request
up to two $40 coupons to be used toward the purchase of up to two,
digital-to-analog converter boxes ... ... rest, including
clickthroughs to the technical announcement:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2007/DTVfinalrule_031207.htm

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