The Big Switch

The first coupon-eligible converter boxes hit stores in February, and word of the transition seems to have gotten out to the public. But as some in Congress are starting to realize, viewers who receive DTV education still might not receive the DTV signals. Read full story by Sanjay Talwani at TV Technology .com

More than one in five television-set owners in the Visalia-Fresno area — the ones without cable or satellite service — have a year to decide how they’re going to get television signals. These viewers tune into broadcast stations the old-fashioned way, with set-top “rabbit ears” or a rooftop antenna aimed at a… Read full storyby … Read more

“We are doing well. By the end of 2007, more than 50 percent of American households owned a digital television,” Shapiro said…. Read full story

Darren Murph over at EndGadget wrote a short blurb about the HDTV Converter Coupons arriving, plus a photo of the coupon card,that I thought you might be interested in: We’re seeing the first reports of early appliers receiving their pair of coupons in all of their credit card-sized glory. Nothing too special here — just … Read more

(Washington, DC) In a little less than a year, the nation’s analog TV sets won’t work without some kind of digital converter, a prospect fueling fears that clueless citizens won’t know what to do when their analog-only sets go dark. But Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, thinks those fears are overblown… Read … Read more