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Interesting thing is that sprWalmart is selling DTV converter boxes in areas that are served exclusively by low power television translators. I wonder how many returns they get.
Since these are not required to be turned digital in February, and since the economy is in the dump, these won't be going anywhere soon.
Where my parents live, their area network affiliates run the DTV infomercials, but show for about 1/30 of a second a disclaimer that low power stations and translators will not be affected.
Its a real hoot seeing high end 1080p POS flat panels running 640i off air (rural Az, little or no cable) and the people there fruitlessly setting these things to look for digital channels and finding the tvs only find analog. (ch 39-0...).
At least I got my hands on some really cool early 80's trinitrons "cos them things won't work next year".
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