news.cnet.com - 11/14/2008
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Geeks and nerds need not apply, but if you're still one of those facing your 10-year-old analog TV every night, I have some news. Come February 17, 2009, we will be making the official transition to digital television broadcasting. This means your rabbit-eared television will no longer work. If ...
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Best Buy to hold digital crossover workshops, push HDTVs
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... expensive HDTVs. Best Buy and other big box retailers has been using the digital transition (and the public's lack of education about it) to sell unnecessary televisions for months.
I mean, hell, what is there to really hold a workshop about? If you've got cable — which approximately 80 percent of Americans do — you don't need to worry about anything. If you're still sucking in broadcast waves via bunny ears, you do. And that box is not a $1500 plasma.
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