On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:11:32 -0500, "mac"
wrote:

Sounds good except for the price of $375........Thanks, but for now I really
can't afford anything near that
much. It will be a big shock if the public has to pay even 1/4 that much to
use their old tv's in 2006 when
all tv stations are scheduled to broadcast in only digital format, as I
understand it. I could be wrong, but
I don't think the public is that close to being ready for it, unless
converter boxes come down drastically
from the above price, so that the tv s most people are using now will pick
up the digital broadcast.


Now is a good time to buy one of these boxes. The new models have
just come out, so the old ones are on sale. I found a returned Zenith
HDTV box for $50 at circuit city last week. They can be had for as
little as $100 on ebay.

I agree that they will have to get a lot cheaper before everyone can
have one. It will also leave people in fringe areas out in the cold.
Even a very weak analog signal is usable, but it's all or nothing with
digital.
Andy Cuffe

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