Digital TV (DTV) Chapel Hill NC

When the nation cans analog TV broadcasts in exchange for digital signals, you'll need a digital TV, digital subscriber service or a digital converter to stay tuned.

by Broderick Perkins
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Deadline Newsroom - If you are still climbing a ladder to adjust your rooftop TV antennae or leaving the couch to reposition those "rabbit ears," your TV will go dark in another year.

To stay tuned with your current equipment, you'll have to get a digital converter to dumb-down the signal for your low-tech TV.

Otherwise all channels will be full of "snow" and white noise.
Luckily, free $40 coupons, two per household, are now available from the federal government to help you defray the $50 to $70 cost of a converter. Converters will be available from electronics retailers and other merchants.

Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, analog TV signals makes way for digital TV (DTV) signals. Congress ordered the transition to digital broadcasting to make more efficient use of the publicly owned airwaves.

You do have some other options in addition to the digital-to-analog converter, which, again, is only necessary to get the digital signal over-the-air via an antennae to your analog TV.

• You will not need the converter if you own a digital TV, even if you get over-the-air antennae signals. The digital TV converts the signal with it's built in digital tuner. ...

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