Re: $40 for HDTV converter boxes

linnix wrote:

On Oct 4, 11:30 pm, "Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesS...@xxxxxxxxx>
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.


I also need a voucher for electricity. These boxes use 30W to 40W all
the time, even when we are sleeping. There is no way to put it in
standby, and it takes forever to reboot if unplugged.


Really? Wow. And whom will they flog for such a clear case of technical incompetence?


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.

---Joel





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Regards, Joerg

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