Gov't now offering $40 to future-proof Grandma's TV

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

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While I’m sure this won’t effect most CG readers, hop online and get your $40 certificate for a digital to analog converter for Grandma’s old CRT TV or Dad’s TV in the garage. The Essentially, all analog television broadcasts will cease on February 17. 2009 and this box with convert digital signals to analog and many even add closed-captioning and other cool features that you wouldn’t normally have on an old RCA from 1982.

DTV2009.gov

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