Let the IRS Help With DTV.(digital television)

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 2007

By Staff

As of March 1, all new TV and video products imported into the U.S. or shipped to retailers were required to have a digital tuner. That means that, while a consumer can still find an analog-only set in some dusty corner of a bad appliance store, the government-mandated demise of analog is officially in progress. The end of analog is near.

But it's fair to say that few consumers know that, as of Feb. 18, 2009, the big-screen analog TV they just got a great deal on will just be a piece of useless furniture, without help from Uncle Sam.

About 17% of the population--more than 18.8 million households--receive broadcast television over-the-air, not via cable or satellite. Many of them are elderly, poor or poorly educated. When the...

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