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Home Theater October 18, 2007	Best Buy Banishes Obsolete TVs Best Buy stopped selling analog sets on October 1, 2007. No longer will confused low-end consumers take home obsolete TVs. A bright new DTV world is dawning.
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Home Theater May 27, 2009	Analog-Shutoff Test Hits a Nerve A single-day record of 55,000 calls flooded help lines staffed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday, May 21, after TV stations across the nation broadcast a series of warnings about the shutoff of analog television signals scheduled for June 12.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Morgan Housel	Best Buy Gives Analog the Boot The retailer becomes the first to pull the plug on analog TVs.
Home Theater April 7, 2008	Consumers Won't Trash Analog TVs A new study shows most of the obsolete TV sets will find loving new homes.
Home Theater January 3, 2008 Mark Fleischman	U.S. DTV Penetration Hits Milestone Digital television has passed its most significant milestone.
Home Theater February 25, 2008	Feds Mail Analog-TV Adapter Coupons Your $40 federal subsidy designed to keep your old TV going is in the mail -- if you've requested it.
Popular Mechanics October 2008 Rob Sabin	Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense.
Home Theater May 22, 2007	Will Box Shortage Mar DTV Transition? TV station owners are worried that a lack of convertors may let analog sets fade to black after the transition to digital television.
Home Theater September 11, 2008	Wilmington, NC Lives the DTV Future Now Folks in Wilmington, North Carolina are getting digital signals exclusively in a trial run for the overall U.S. DTV transition.
InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Pushes Educational Outreach New legislation would mandate consumer programs by broadcasters, retailers and the FCC.
Home Theater June 12, 2007	Two DTV Makers Violate Tuner Mandate The Federal Communications Commission has fined two up-and-coming DTV makers for failing to build digital tuners into their flat-panel sets.
Home Theater February 29, 2008	Secret Shoppers Find DTV Confusion Retailers are not giving consumers accurate information about the transition to digital television, according to a report issued by U.S. PIRG, the federation of state-based Public Interest Research Groups.
Home Theater February 4, 2009	It's Official: DTV Transition Botched The on-again, off-again effort to delay the DTV transition from February 17 to June 12 has overcome its biggest obstacle.
Home Theater August 31, 2007	U.K. Supermarket Sells STB for $20 The U.S. will award coupons to households to buy digital-to-analog conversion boxes.
Knowledge@Wharton	Television's Digital Dilemma If the struggle over digital television in the U.S. were made into a TV show, it would be a tale of intrigue, backstabbing and hidden motives.
Home Theater July 30, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	DTV STB Coupon Deadline Nears July 31 is the last day to get a $40 subsidy coupon for a DTV set-top box.
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Analog TV: Fade To Black On Feb. 17, 2009 Congress will decree that broadcasters must end analog transmissions on that date and switch to the digital technology they have been phasing in for several years. If you are planning to buy a television, make sure it's digital-ready.
Home Theater June 11, 2009	DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter?
Home Theater August 27, 2007	Free Analog Cable Service Urged A coalition of small cable operators is urging Congress to let them provide free analog cable service following the switchover to digital television broadcasting.
Home Theater September 14, 2007	FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog.
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	DTV Snags Loom Large Despite Delay FCC chairman warns of widespread confusion as many stations plan to shut off analog signals next week.
Home Theater February 7, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	Cable Nets Hit FCC on Dual Channels Will dual digital and analog versions of local broadcast TV stations push small cable networks out of cable systems? That's what some cable networks fear. And they're voicing their fear by suing the Federal Communications Commission.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk Congress finally sent legislation Wednesday to President Bush that sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the end of analog broadcasting in the United States. After that, television sets must have digital tuners to receive an over-the-air signal.
Home Theater June 16, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	FCC Gets 900,000 DTV Panic Calls The Federal Communications Commission has fielded more than 900,000 calls since analog television broadcasting was shut down on Friday June 12.
Home Theater November 17, 2008	FCC Green-Lights DTV Range Fix The Federal Communications Commission has green-lighted distributed transmission systems to essentially allow the usual single broadcast tower to be supplemented with additional transmitters.
Home Theater September 19, 2008	FCC: DTV Test 99 Percent Successful The nation's first full test of the DTV transition has been 99 percent successful, says the chair of the FCC.
PC World May 2003 Anne Kandra	Consumer Watch: Is It Time for a High-Definition TV? Your next monitor could double as a sophisticated entertainment device.
Home Theater November 7, 2008	Cable Must Carry Broadcast Channels Following the DTV transition next February, cable systems will be required to carry broadcast channels.
Home Theater January 16, 2009	Three-Month DTV Delay Urged Sen. John Rockefeller has introduced a bill that would delay the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting from the currently scheduled February 17th to June 12th.
Home Theater November 11, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	NY Tries Brief Analog TV Shutoff Analog television channels went dark for two minutes in the New York metropolitan area a few weeks ago, in an early trial run for the DTV transition, scheduled for February 2009.
Home Theater June 21, 2007	CableCARD Cost to Hit Comcast Customers Comcast has become the first cable operator to announce that it will pass on one particular cost of CableCARD-capable boxes to its subscribers.
PC Magazine March 1, 2009 Sascha Segan	Don't Delay the DTV Transition We've waited long enough for the analog to digital television conversion. It's time to switch over.
AskMen.com January 14, 2003 Peter Richmond	HDTV: Coming Soon To Your Living Room Governments around the world are forcing broadcasters to convert to both digital and high-definition pictures simultaneously. Broadcasters will have to squeeze more picture detail into the same bandwidth they were using for analog television.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Roy Mark	House Approves DTV Bill Television broadcasters have three years to clear analog spectrum for wireless broadband providers and first responders.
InternetNews March 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Feds Tune In DTV Subsidy Plan All U.S. households will be eligible for two $40 coupons to help defray the cost of digital converter boxes that analog television sets will need to view over-the-air broadcasting after Feb. 17, 2009.
Home Theater February 19, 2009	Hello, FCC? My TV Went Dark On the day after the nation's TV stations ceased analog broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission received 28,000 phone calls.
Home Theater April 14, 2004	Study: Rosy Future for DTVs Global shipments of digital televisions will hit 93 million in 2008, more than five times the present level, according to In-Stat/MDR.
Home Theater March 14, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Broadcasts to Get Field Testing The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to a new set of field tests to gauge exactly what will happen to antenna-dependent viewers in February 2009.
Home Theater June 20, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson	Will Digital TV Save Lives? A new bill proposes an end to analog TV broadcasts and the beginning of enhanced public safety.
PC World May 2004 Yardena Arar	HDTV Answer Guide Ready for next-generation television? Before you take the high-definition high dive, read this guide to the services, the sets, and more.
Home Theater March 19, 2009	FCC Tweaks DTV Transition Scenario The Federal Communications Commission is using what it learned in February to set down rules for the remainder of the stations that complete the transition in June.
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Roy Mark	House Considers Subsidizing DTV Transition A new proposal aims to speed broadcasters' move to digital and open spectrum for advanced wireless services.
Home Theater May 22, 2009	FCC Girds for Analog Armageddon The Federal Communications Commission is going into high gear to ensure that the final stage of the DTV transition goes smoothly.
Home Theater June 5, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition One Week Away On June 12, 2009, more than half of the nation's television broadcasters will make the final switch to digital signals, shutting off analog forever.
InternetNews December 19, 2005 Roy Mark	DTV Transition Date Set The House approves the DTV transition date and the Senate expected to agree today.
Home Theater February 14, 2008	DTV Coverage May Lose Viewers As many as six million viewers may lose reception of some channels, according to a study.
InternetNews June 9, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC Tuning In DTV The Federal Communications Commission told TV makers today they must comply with a July 1 mandate to carry digital tuners in half of their most popular models.
PC World May 2004 Dan Tynan	Whose TV Is It, Anyway? Hollywood wants to control how you use digital TV.
AskMen.com	No More TV For Millions More than 2 million households are in danger of seeing their major broadcast TV channels disappear into a fuzz of static when analog service ends Friday, according to surveys.