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CES 2008: EchoStar to make DTV converters free after government voucher

article published on 8 January, 2008

On the first day of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), EchoStar Holding Corp., owner of both the Dish Network satellite television service and place-shifting hardware manufacturer Slingbox has announced that they'll be offering a converter box to consumers to allow their analog TVs to receive Digital TV (DTV) broadcasts after analog TV signals disappear from the airwaves early next ... [ read the full article ]

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borhan9
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_ 		9. January 2008 @ 18:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Free is always the way to go. This is a great incentive for everyone :)
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orion250
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_ 		15. January 2008 @ 21:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You should be able to use one converter box regardless of how many tv's you have by hooking your coaxial cable from your antenna to the converter box then plugging in a wireless transmitter. For this to work, you would need to connect a wireless receiver to each of your analog tv's. These wireless packages can be found at www.X10.com and are EXTREMELY cheap in price. About $50.00 plus the cost of each additional receiver. That's what I am going to do.
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