Survey Cites Lack Of Notice About Digital TV Transition

SURVEY CITES LACK OF NOTICE ABOUT DIGITAL TV TRANSITION
[SOURCE: Technology Daily 8/4, AUTHOR: Drew Clark]
In spite of considerable progress installing digital tuners in televisions, electronic companies and retailers are not adequately notifying customers that sets without tuners will not receive over-the-air broadcasts beginning February 2009. According to a survey of two leading electronics retailers conducted by Technology Daily, only 3 percent of sets for sale at Best Buy included notices about the 2009 change. The comparable number was 33 percent for Circuit City. The Consumer Electronics Association agreed this spring that manufacturers voluntarily would affix advisory labels onto any sets manufactured or imported without digital tuners. None of the sets in either store included any language from the CEA-recommended advisory. It reads: "This TV has only an 'analog' broadcast tuner so will require a converter box after Feb. 17, 2009 to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the nation's transition to digital broadcasting on that date, as required by federal law."
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