[BC] FCC Enforcing DTV Notice to Consumers

[Kevin Trueblood]

I've heard more than a few people have been suckered into the "Need for a 
digital antenna" at places like Best Buy.  Of course, this is the same place 
that won't sell HDMI or component video cables for less than $50.

Kevin Trueblood
Operations Manager
Great Plains Media - Bloomington, Il
WDQZ-WYST-WRPW
ph:  309-888-4496
fax: 309-452-9677
kevint at greatplainsmedia.us


> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:19:56 +0000
> From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: [BC] FCC Enforcing DTV Notice to Consumers
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> They started doing that as soon as "flat-panel" TVs came out.
> I remember seeing a wonderful 42-inch TV at Best Buy for "only"
> $2,999. ----Then I read the fine print. I needed to buy a receiver
> and some speakers for $600. Consumers need to be aware.
>
> I hung onto my perfectly-good 25-year old Sony tube TV and
> bought a Motorola Digital receiver box to feed it from an off-
> the-air signal. I could receive all the Boston, Providence,
> and Manchester, NH., digital stations from an outside,
> antenna as Radio Shack sales-persons claimed was
> impossible without a special digital antenna! Note that
> aluminum tubing somehow knows if its digital.
> Buyer beware.
>