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Man frustrated with converter box shoots TV, in police standoff [Giz] How We Bungled Transition [Wired] High-Def Television Promises Sharper Crap [The Onion] Converter Box Scam Websites [KSDK/NBC] Hidden Camera in DTV Converter Box is a Hoax [Wired] [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4iIM8Eljc] Related Posts: Requiem For Analog TV, Lurching Toward Digital

Noted author Bruce Sterling presents a eulogy for analog TV, at the Berkeley Art Museum, February 17 2009. [flash http://vimeo.com/3069388] [video link] kudos boingboing Previously: Analog TV Shutdown Delayed, Lurching Toward Digital, Switching to Digital TV

US Congress approved a delay from the planned February 17 shutdown of broadcast analog TV signals to a new deadline of June 12. The President is expected to sign the measure into law. From the Washington Post: The Federal Communications Commission has said that centers set up to answer consumer questions about the conversion were [...]

25 years ago today, Sony Corporation of America v Universal City Studios, Inc was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, affirming that time-shifting is fair use and does not infringe on copyright. [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDr_04-CMs] [video link]

The USA DTV coupon program is out of money. The vouchers are intended to help purchase digital converter boxes for consumers with older televisions (and analog TV tuner cards) needed to convert digital broadcasts to the legacy format after the February 17, 2009 deadline for stopping analog broadcast TV. $1.34 billion was reserved for the [...]

Analog TV broadcasting in the USA is slated to end February 17, 2009. Anyone still using an analog TV in the States after that point (including tuners using some of our software) will need a converter box. As a public service, this video guide explains all: [flash http://www.hulu.com/embed/sHvYdduH4i5nXRdHvmWJVA] video link [kudos Talkshow with Spike Feresten]