An unexpected spike in requests has sapped all the money from the federal program that offers coupons for digital TV converter boxes. On Sunday, the program received requests for the last of the 51.5 ...

As consumers start hooking up converter boxes in anticipation of the nation's big switch to digital TV next month, one thing is becoming crystal clear: TV pictures. People who switch to digital TV now ...

U.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come up empty-handed, a regulator has warned. Due to a ...

A digital converter box takes a digital TV signal and converts it so analog televisions can recognize it and work. It's one option for TV owners when all television signals go digital by Feb. 17, 2009 ...

Today's column will address the problems created for those who do not qualify for the government's free TV converter-box coupons. First, we must look at an overview of the program for those who do ...

CHEYENNE — As if there isn't enough to think about with the looming digital TV switch, now federally issued coupons for converter boxes may expire before you can use them. By law, all full-powered TV ...

With the deadline only six months away, demand for digital TV conversion boxes - and the coupons to help pay for them - is surging. On Feb. 17, 2009, almost all television broadcasts in the United ...

A U.S. government program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money. The U.S. National Telecommunications and ...

Pearl TV, a consortium comprised of local television broadcasters and other stakeholders in that industry, is launching a new program that aims to make it easier for Americans to purchase converter ...

America has handed out the last coupons to be used towards the purchase of a digital terrestrial TV converter box. Congress had allocated $1.34bn to be distributed as coupons worth $40 each. Every US ...

David Simmons, of Trumbull, still gets his TV shows the old-fashioned way ---- from an antenna. For him and millions of other viewers nationwide, June 12 was a dark day, for it was the day that all ...