Posted on 01/06/2009 7:38:33 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
Six weeks from today, TV signals will turn digital, but a program intended to ease the transition, is out of cash.
The government set aside $1.3 billion to provide $40 coupons to help people pay for the converter boxes. But less than two months before the switch, the program is out of money.
If you applied for a coupon before December 31st you should be in the clear, and recieve it about four weeks after your application date.
For more information on the digital switch, click on the DTV link on our homepage at www.wifr.com
Perhaps they could just take after California and mail people IOUs.
UhBamUh’s fault. Where my 75 dollas, bro?
Well God Forbid that someone has to go a couple weeks without watching TV, or that they have to actually buy something themselves. We’ll have panic in the streets.
I have an extra coupon that expires Jan. 19, that someone can have. Any takers?
I got my coupons and got two converter boxes in November.heh heh!!!
Tell me how they work, do I need one for each non HDTV, going from the rooftop antenna?
I wish people would have had the good sense of ignoring the coupons. If they can spend $500 for a TV, then they can spend $50 for a converter box.
I got my coupons in October and I’m set up and watching DTV now. For some reason I thought they were ending the coupon program in November so I was ahead of the game for a change.
Well, that’s just it. Some people can’t spend $500 for a TV, and that is why they are spending much less for a convertor box.
Heck, they could spend $200 for a DVR box with a HDTV tuner already in it.
I’m sure alot of people ordered the coupon so they could get the DTV converter and perhaps consider if they might want to cancel their cable/satelitte.
No one should have had to pay a damn cent for this conversion.
The converter is for people who are still on an antenna. It has nothing to do with whether you have an HDTV.
Yes, you need one for each tv as you will use the DTV convertor box to change channels with the new remote. They work quite well.
Out of money???
There is no way in hell people have applied for 1.3 billion dollars worth of coupons.
Who stole the money?
More of the Clinton screwups.
That’s only 32.5 million coupons or one for approximately every 10 people in the USA. Considering you can get two, that’s 1 in every 20 people.
When the DTV conversion happens February 17th, I have no doubt that thousands of clueless people will scream that they have no TV signal and will flood the stores with requests for converter boxes, of which we have only a few. Then they will turn their anger toward the government, claiming they had no idea and how dare they do this. Women and children hit hardest.
I sold two DTV boxes to a guy in a Bentley, using his two $40 coupons. No joke. I guess that is how you afford a Bentley. Food stamps?
Most HDTVs have a new tuner built in. Some of the older ones don’t as the manufacturers were trying to cut corners and keep prices down. The new ones all are required to.
We need a bailout for consumers now!
Clearly 1.3 billion was not adequate.
We must have a bailout today. No need to investigate if fraud has occurred, just that the money has ran out!
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