"Morgans" wrote in
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"Marty Shapiro" wrote

Those coupons for a DTV to analog converter are only worth $40 each.
Wednesday, Fry's Electronics was selling this converter for $179. The
Feds
are NOT giving the consumer a free converter.

40 bucks is way too low, and 179 bucks is way too high.

I hope the price of the converters come down, a lot.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
expects the price of the converter box to drop to about $50 to $60. Of
course, if the manufacturers want to push us into buying new TVs, VCRs,
DVRs, etc, they will just keep the price on these high. At Fry's
Electronics, they only converter they had for sale was from Samsung. My
guess is that there will be a run on these come February 17, 2009.

The web site http://dtvanswers.com gives a lot more information.

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Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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