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| TV switch to have big local impact,Houston among cities with
Houston's high percentage of analog television viewers means the city will be one of the most affected when television broadcasters switch their signals to digital on Feb. 17, 2009.
Of 2 million Houston households with TVs, about 467,000 — or nearly 23 percent — are analog-only, meaning they get their programming over the air through an antenna on the roof or rabbit ears on their sets, according to Consumers Union and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley also stand to be more affected than most cities in other parts of the country.
Some think they need to buy expensive high-definition TVs.Some think their analog TVs need to be replaced with digital models. Some think they need to subscribe to cable or some other pay-TV service.
None of those steps is necessary.
"All of these things could cost consumers a significant amount of money if ===============
»www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/fro···142.html
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| Nice post. That's a good article in the Chron. I was wondering myself how may technically challenged people were going to get screwed by unscrupulous salesmen. Thinking they 'have' to purchase a HDTV.
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