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News To Know: Digital Transition Still Coming Right Up

By Beth Carpenter, January 12, 2009 05:50 AM

In case you haven't noticed all the advertisements, February 17, 2009 is still the date when you can't get those analog signals anymore.
Lately, though, we're hearing calls for a delay after the coupons for digital converter boxes ran out - even from President-Elect Obama's transition team. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, however, the commissioner of the FCC seemed strongly against it - saying it would be a bad idea to confuse everyone by changing the date.
Stay tuned.

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