April 4, 2008

DTV2009: Retailers Trying To Sell You Analog TV's Without You Knowing Says FCC

Just head out to purchase a brand new digital TV in preparation for DTV2009? We hope you haven't been had. An agenda released for an FCC public meeting scheduled for April 10 has revealed that the federal communications regulation body is considering fines against a whack of manufacturers and retailers for "for failing to build digital TVs that work sufficiently well with the V-chip/TV-ratings system", "violating the FCC's requirements that they label analog-only TV's as such", and "importing and shipping analog-only TVs". 14 retailers have apparently been caught with analog-only TV's on their shelves not labeled as such and a single manufacturer has been shipping analog-only TV's months after the practice was supposed to be stopped.

We have no word yet on who the offending retailers and manufacturer are, but you can bet we'll let you know as soon as we find out. The last thing you need come DTV2009 is to fork out a bunch of money for a TV that's going to cause you problems.

Via Broadcasting & Cable

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