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[legalmoose]

FCC Votes To Require Digital Tuners on All TV Sets by 2007

By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 8, 2002; 2:15 PM

In its strongest action to date on the conversion to digital television, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a plan today that will require electronics manufacturers to include digital tuners in all new televisions by 2007.

The ruling will make nearly every TV set currently in use obsolete for receiving broadcast television without the purchase of additional hardware when the digital conversion takes place by the end of 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59817-2002Aug8.html

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Yes, but what is the EPA going to do with this? Are we going to have any sort of recycling for those TVs that are going to be trashed, or do we just dump all of these things into our landfills?

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[legalmoose]

No clue, you'd have to go see the article.

[draco-kc.livejournal.com]

Given the fact that HDTV-ready sets are still fairly pricey, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we see eventually some sort of "converter box" marketed to the lower-end consumer, that would enable them to keep their old tv's. If so, that might slow down the rate at which folks chuck out their old tv sets.