Order Your Digital Converter Box Coupons Now
Do you have questions about the television industry’s upcoming transition from analog to digital broadcasting?
If so, send your question to my blog, and I’ll get an answer for you.
I’ll also be writing blogs on various topics relating to DTV.
This year I have spoken to 28 local groups about DTV, and I have more groups on my calendar.
The big switch is happening the night of June 12, 2009. It takes place precisely at midnight, in the middle of “The Late Show with David Letterman.“
Bye bye analog!
One of the main things I’ve worked to impress upon the church groups, civic clubs and other organizations I’ve spoken to is the need to order immediately your coupons from the federal government that will save you money on a DTV converter box.
If you receive your television signal over-the-air, via a “rabbit ears” antenna or an outdoor antenna, and you have an old-style analog TV (in other words, a TV that doesn’t have a digital tuner), you’ll need a converter box.
The boxes are sold anyplace that sells televisions: Best Buy, Wal Mart, Radio Shack, Circuit City, etc. The average price is around $60.
But you can bring your share of the price down to roughly $20 by ordering discount coupons from the federal government. Each coupon is worth $40.
The government coupon looks more like a credit card. It’s red. Each household can get as many as two (2) coupons.
But here’s the trick: you don’t get the coupon automatically. You have to place an order.
I got mine. I may not need them, but I got ‘em.
Keep in mind you must give a street address when placing your coupon order. To prevent fraud, the government will not deliver the coupons to a post office box.
If you have a television that needs a converter box to be ready for DTV, you need to order the coupons right away. It’ll take a few weeks for them to arrive.
You can place the order over the telephone or with your computer:
1-888-388-2009 or http://www.dtv2009.gov.
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I have Dishnetwork, but my concern is for the people who has to have the convertor. The government is supposed to be improving the economy and now we have to spend money on a box and for some other extra equipment just to make the box work, just to watch TV. To me it kind of makes me think we might have to pay for air to breathe next. So tell me how is this supposed to help the economy? Is this fair should it not be a choice for the people to make? I don’t remember voting on this. What about the older people who can’t afford their medicines and now they have to buy equipment to watch TV?
I have a converter box and it works great..my question is I have a friend who went and took her tv to Radio Shack and they told her that a converter box would not work on her tv she would need a $200 outside antena there is a antena on the tv so is there any reason a converter would not work on hers,I thought that no matter how old the tv is if it had VHF and UHF on it it would work..she gets WSPA which is VHF now and and also ETV which is UHF now .... Her “rabbit ears are attached to the TV…Thanks
I have a question, not sure if this is the place to ask or not so if not can someone direct me in the correct direction. I was wondering if all tv is gonna be HDTV will all the channels that cable charge you for all be free?
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