As TV stations prepare to switch to a digital signal in February, the government is giving out coupons to significantly reduce the price of converters for older TVs -- problem is, consumers may not be ...

An unexpected spike in requests has sapped all the money from the federal program that offers coupons for digital TV converter boxes. On Sunday, the program received requests for the last of the 51.5 ...

A digital converter box takes a digital TV signal and converts it so analog televisions can recognize it and work. It's one option for TV owners when all television signals go digital by Feb. 17, 2009 ...

David Simmons, of Trumbull, still gets his TV shows the old-fashioned way ---- from an antenna. For him and millions of other viewers nationwide, June 12 was a dark day, for it was the day that all ...

A U.S. government program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money. The U.S. National Telecommunications and ...

Today's column will address the problems created for those who do not qualify for the government's free TV converter-box coupons. First, we must look at an overview of the program for those who do ...

People who got digital TV converter box coupons but let them expire can now apply for new ones. The recent stimulus package put more money into the coupon program, letting the National ...

With the deadline only six months away, demand for digital TV conversion boxes - and the coupons to help pay for them - is surging. On Feb. 17, 2009, almost all television broadcasts in the United ...

America has handed out the last coupons to be used towards the purchase of a digital terrestrial TV converter box. Congress had allocated $1.34bn to be distributed as coupons worth $40 each. Every US ...

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I just received the digital tv converter box coupon from the federal gov't (yah for deficit spending), and was wondering a few things...<BR><BR>these things are out in stores, right? <BR><BR>Do they ...

We have an old TV that is used exclusively for watching DVDs and VHS tapes. Never bothered to hook up a converter box to it, but now I think I want to. Problem is, there's a real rat's nest of cables ...