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The Sale of NTSC TVs After March 2007

Markxxx

Markxxx

From the FCC Website:

The FCC requires that many new television receivers sold in the U.S. today include the capability to receive digital TV signals. By March 2007, all TVs (and other devices that are designed to receive broadcast television signals) are required to have digital tuners built in.

The question I have maybe I'm reading this wrong. After March 2007 all TV, vcrs etc have to have a digital tuner to be sold. If that is correct, what are they going to do with the tens of thousands of TV still in warehouses and show rooms that only have NTSC tuners now? Throw them out?

I live in the city and I was looking around and in KMart, Sears, Target, Best Buy and Circuit City probably 3/4 to 90% of the TVs are only NTSC.

Or is the FCC going to allow them to be sold as long as they were made before that time?

I see this on the FCC site too.

Beginning in 2008, your household may be able to obtain up to two coupons worth $40 each toward the purchase of converter boxes. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has responsibility for administering the coupon program, and will issue rules regarding the coupons in the future. Additional information can be found at http://ntia.doc.gov.
 
Mark said:
The question I have maybe I'm reading this wrong. After March 2007 all TV, vcrs etc have to have a digital tuner to be sold. If that is correct, what are they going to do with the tens of thousands of TV still in warehouses and show rooms that only have NTSC tuners now? Throw them out?

Or is the FCC going to allow them to be sold as long as they were made before that time?
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Personally, I think any non-digital sets remaining unsold by March can still be sold until they run out -- it's just that they could no longer make sets without digital tuners.
 
I had heard the deadline for non-digital televisions was moved to a date in 2009. I don't remember the exact reference but I remembered this bantered about for awhile now.
 
The current analog shutoff date is around February 17, 2009.
 
I was in Wal-Mart this week, and saw my first Standard Definition TV with a DTV tuner - it was a 19" tv. It was clearly marked on the box that it receives local OTA DTV transmissions, but is not Hi Def (I think it had a "SDTV" logo - with DTV highlighted).

I was surprised!

Jim
 
Jim said:
It was clearly marked on the box that it receives local OTA DTV transmissions, but is not Hi Def (I think it had a "SDTV" logo - with DTV highlighted).

Jim
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See this is the part that is going to cause issues. People are going to buy DTV and have no idea it isn't HDTV. Or they are gonna buy HDTV sets and hook them up to cable and get only cable but think they are getting HDTV.

Either way a lot of people are gonna be spending money and not realizing what they are getting. Ask someone you know what is the difference between HDTV and DTV they probably won't know or they'll assume DTV IS HDTV.
 
I work at hell (Wal-Mart) so I deal with this mess every freakin' day.
 
Try going to three outfits that sell EDTV, DTV, HDTV--and you'll get three totally different versions (all false) of what each is capable of delivering. Seems as if sales people at ther major electronics group stores are making it up as they go along and pushing the pitch to the point that buyers will tolerate.

It could be argued that buyer beware should prevail, but sales people are so into snowing potential buyers with HDTV-speak and outright gobbeldygook that some purchasers have wound up buying HDTV capable monitors rather than actual HDTV receivers.

The horror stories are legion. If you aren't confused about HDTV before talking to an 18 year old sales know it all, you certainly will be afterward. Yesterday overheard another customer tell a young man in one store, "I might consider a purchase here if you put me with someone who knows what the hell is going on with high definition TV. You quite plainly do not."
 
easttxtv said:
How many thou$and$ was it priced for??
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I've seen 27" SD (standard definition) televisions with built in digital tuners priced at just a bit over $200 -- I think it was $219 for a house brand (Insignia) TV at Best Buy.
 
Maybe we should go into the stores and litter the television sections with detailed and accurate, yet easy-to-read, explanations. We might want to do the same to the employees' lounge.

Or we could just set up a web site... though doesn't the FCC already have a web site?
 
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