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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. … Read more

TV’s big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna? more stories like this But it’s pretty clear which business interests … Read more

Coupons days are here for owners of outdated analog televisions. The federal government said Friday it will begin mailing out $40 coupons next week to consumers to help pay for converter boxes that will save their analog sets from becoming obsolete. TV viewers who get their programming over an antenna and are not connected to … Read more

In one year a change will occur that will forever alter the way Americans watch TV. As of Feb. 17th, 2009, analog television will no longer be available. People who already have a digital television, or an HDTV, will not be affected by the conversion. The millions of Americans who still… Read full story