Best Buy ends sales of analog TVs

[FeelGood]

Electronics retailer pulls sets from shelves, sells only digital products

Updated: 8:13 a.m. PT Oct 17, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS - Best Buy Co. said Wednesday it has stopped selling analog televisions and pulled all remaining stock from its shelves, signalling the end of an era as consumers increasingly move toward digital products with flat-panel and high-definition screens.
Best Buy, one of the nation's top electronics retailers, heralded the reign of digital TVs, saying it made the move "as the end of the analog broadcast era draws near." Best Buy instructed stores to stop selling the products on Oct. 1.

Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, broadcasters will stop transmitting analog signals.



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[Big R]

2009?

goddamnit!


guess i gotta start saving up for those fancy tvs

[FeelGood]

unless you're making 8$/hr or less you won't have to wait long until you'll be able to afford one.

HDTV's have come down in price quite a bit and with Christmas right around the corner , expect them to drop even more.

[ppcock]

that 2009 got postponed.

the actual date is like 2011 or something like that.

[rustybob]

One thing you gotta remember though, is that analog does not mean CRT. You can get a CRT TV with an ATSC (digital) tuner in it.

Also, you won't have to buy a new TV to get OTA signals, or the 1-70 lineup of digital channels. You can buy an analog-to-digital converter. The government is subsidising this in the US, but I'm not sure if they are in Canada.

[ebbomega]

So what's happening with those radio frequencies? Off to HAM or the highest bidder?

[guido]

as long as i can still play NES its all good

[Revolver]

09 is the date for the states....

the last great crt maker was sony and back when i was still in the game they only had enough for the canadian supply chain to run out the 07 year...

anyways its a dead issue. crt has been long gone for years.

i think the last crt livingroom set i sold was like three years ago....

[ebbomega]

I'm still missing wtf this has to do with CRTs.