Last month the FCC issued nearly $4 billion dollars in fines to various retailers across the US for failing to label TVs without digital tuners. The labels are required by a rule adopted last May requiring retailers to label TVs with only analog (NTSC) tuners as incompatible with digital television (DTV) broadcasts. Starting in February of next year such TVs will require a converter box ... [ read the full article ]
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I can't stand Circuit City!
...but that's beside the point ;-)
I'd have to somewhat agree with them on this one. Lately the FCC [or shall I say Kevin Martin] doesn't seem to have his/their head[s] screwed on straight. This is not their jurisdiction. If they wanted things labeled, they should have worked with the FTC to get manufacturers to properly label the packaging. They require labeling about laser safety, interference requirements etc. Why not do it the same?
Circuit City, Best Buy , Radio Shack and other giant stores are failing big time informing the public about whats gonna happen soon with the TV signal and what devices can do what and what devices need what in order to receive the digital signals OTA. When are these stores going to set up displays showing us the people how a digital converter box works without any of the regular sorces such as NTSC tuner, cable or satellite services.
Show us what a QAM and ATSC tuner are capable of, what do i need if i have an HDTV READY, what do i need if i have an EDTV, why is everything so complicated?
Originally posted by oscarin: Circuit City, Best Buy , Radio Shack and other giant stores are failing big time informing the public about whats gonna happen soon with the TV signal and what devices can do what and what devices need what in order to receive the digital signals OTA. When are these stores going to set up displays showing us the people how a digital converter box works without any of the regular sorces such as NTSC tuner, cable or satellite services.
Show us what a QAM and ATSC tuner are capable of, what do i need if i have an HDTV READY, what do i need if i have an EDTV, why is everything so complicated?
Your wrong we have a display stating that in the following year a SDTV will be useless.and are TV's display tech tips and in those tip's is the ugentcy to switch to at least a EDTV set.
they want it on the TV witch we are relunctant to do.
we do a fine job of letting people know whats gunna happen.
i see alot of people that try to use this to get a new tv.
like example i bought my tv 3 months ago you didnt say it was guna be useless, but infact we have a stand saying it would