Re: $40 for HDTV converter boxes

Joel Kolstad wrote:

Joerg and others might find the last paragraph on this page interesting: http://www.ncta.com/ContentView.aspx?contentId=4355 ...it seems that there's been a program funded that'll give you a $40 voucer to help pay for your ATSC->NTSC converter box, with households able to request up to two such vouchers.

There are converter boxes now available for <$100 -- I suspect that somewhere a bunch of Asian engineers are working feverishly to cram enough silicon into a single chip on a cheap enough process that they'll be able to bring up a $39.99 retail converter box sometime in 2008 still.


I haven't seen anything on shelves here. Sometimes I walk over to the electronics aisle, especially when my wife can't stand my "Are we done shopping now?" look.

Here's hoping that multipath doesn't render this whole area a digital wasteland. I guess nobody cares to test. All I know is that if it doesn't work there will be some phone lines starting to glow. You can take a lot away from the masses but not football and TV.

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Regards, Joerg

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