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Digital Switch (Video Included)
The average american spends 30 hours every week in front of the television but many of the TVs you are watching on wont work at all.
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32 Comments The average American spends 30 hours every week in front of the television. But many of the TVs you are watching won't work at all when we switch to digital.
Let the countdown begin. In 655 days a popular past time will change forever but do you know just what we are counting down to?
Do you have any idea what it might be?
Apparently no one knows exactly what is happening so we asked an expert.
Greg Roberts, a television specialist says, "That's the point where the analog transitions from stations like yours and all the rest of the stations will be cut off and going to just a digital signal."
People with satellite don't have to worry. They are already receiving a digital signal and the cable company will ultimately decide whether or not their customers will have to pay for the transition, but everyone else who is using rabbit ears on grandmas black and white TV from 1957 will have to dish out some cash.
One solution will be to upgrade. But digital televisions are priced from a few hundred to several thousands of dollars. Television junkies who don't want to spend that kind of money do have another option.
They'll need to buy the converter box that goes on top of their analog TVs that will grab the digital signal and transform it back into analog signal for those old TVs.
Those boxes should cost around a hundred dollars but coupons for almost half of that will be available to every household.
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Posted by: barbara
Location: landover, md
on Jun 13, 2009 at 03:33 PM
i use to push input on my tv to go to video 2 and watch my tape or dvd but, now since the switch on june 12th when i push input on my tv all i get is a bland screen with the word saying on signal.
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Posted by: Jenny
Location: Wisconsin
on May 13, 2009 at 01:41 PM
Anyone with an old antenna, you will need to get a new digital antenna also. Hooking up the converterbox will not make your antenna digital it will only make your tv.
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Posted by: Cori
Location: Port Orchard
on Apr 30, 2009 at 01:09 AM
I bought and hooked up the converter box, it gets a few channels, however, when the local news comes on the signal stops and it says "restricted" on my tv. No local news when this switches over?? The other programs show fine - just not the local news. What is going on?
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