As part of the migration to digital television, the FCC will require those who sell television receiving equipment without digital tuners after May 25, 2007, to disclose at the point of sale that the equipment will require a converter box to receive over-the-air television after Feb. 17, 2009.
Citing “a matter of public safety for consumers who rely on analog-only television” to receive emergency information via television broadcast, the commission is requiring a transparent sticker with warning information be affixed to the screens of analog TV for sale or displayed separately “immediately adjacent” to each analog TV for sale. For TV devices without displays, the alert must be “in a prominent location.”
FCC Second Report and Order in the Second DTV Periodic Review
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If only they would warn us about tripe like Cop Rock and Martha Stewart Apprentice….
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