NAB Concerned About DTV-Box Shortage

NAB CONCERNED ABOUT DTV-BOX SHORTAGE
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
The National Association of Broadcasters is concerned that millions of digital converter boxes won't be widely available Jan. 1, 2008, for consumers who want to keep using analog TV sets many years into the future. In a letter to leaders of the Consumer Electronics Association and the Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition Monday, NAB President David Rehr said, “It is critical to our collective success that manufacturers build, and retailers have available for sale, digital-to-analog converter boxes by [Jan. 1, 2008]. As I am sure you are aware, if boxes are not produced and on store shelves on Jan. 1, 2008, significant consumer confusion will result and could negatively impact the overall success of the transition.” Ironically, the NAB, CEA and National Cable & Telecommunications Association are leading partners in a coalition designed to prepare the public for the government mandated cutoff of analog TV on Feb. 17, 2009.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6442082.html?rssid=196

* NAB Warns Of Digital TV Box Shortage
http://www.tvpredictions.com/dtv051507.htm

* Text of letter
http://www.nab.org/xert/corpcomm/pressrel/releases/051407_DKR_to_CEA_CER...