So I was browsing Horizontal Hold...

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by zenith2134

and it hit me-- There are so many awesome TVs out there that will not have an opportunity at an NTSC converter box... Imagine how many converter boxes they'd have to allow us for just one collection?

There is no limit on the boxes at all. You could buy fifty of them if you wanted one for every TV in a large collection. Echostar will sell one version for US$40 each. Compared to the cost and time spent restoring our old sets, that is a very small investment.

The two-coupon plan is a reasonable limit for government aid to people who are either really poor, or who are dead-set against spending any money on a government-mandated change. The rest of us just get to go along and get "free" stuff, too.