 DownTheShoreTag, you're itPremium
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Beautiful NJ
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1 edit | said by pcme2000:90 days in more then enough time to go buy a digital box! What is so hard about getting the coupons in the mail and then going to a store like Wal-Mart and buying a box. Even if you don't drive you have to go to a store within 90 days to get food or something. There is always going to be some people that if given 6 monthes will need an extra month or more. Just because they are to lazy to go and get one. You can even order one over the internet and have it delivered. I bet if it was free you would see how many people would be at a store to get them. Mostly being the people that say they need more then 90 days to get to a store to buy one. I think that the point here that a lot are trying to make is that in some areas you just can't FIND the boxes for sale. I would imagine there are a lot more people out there who need a box than they anticipated. For example, I have cable on one TV, but I also have an old TV that only receives 36 channels to begin with, so I just use a VCR's tuner to pick up the unscrambled cable channels. I don't watch that TV often, so I'm not getting rid of it and I have no need to buy a new TV. I can use a box for that set just for better reception. I have yet to see any of these converter boxes whenever I'm in either Best Buy, Target, or Circuit City, much less have a choice of which ones to buy.
And not everyone, believe it or not, has a home computer or knows how to use one, nor do they have cable service. When you're living on a low or fixed income, even $300 for a new computer is not in the budget, nor is a $40/mo cable bill payable. I think we here tend, at times, to be out-of-touch with households where the services we take for granted are actually luxuries. 
And then there's the fact that the quick "sell-out" of shipments of converter boxes are more likely to generate sales of might-as-well-get-a-new TVs. Profit is much higher on a nice brand-new HDTV as opposed to a measly convertor box, right? 
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