On February 17, 2009 Television Will Evolve

If you currently receive analog television over the air or via an antenna, you’ll need to take action to continue watching your favorite stations. TVs accessing "pay" television service such as cable or satellite aren't likely to be affected by the switch.

However, TV sets that rely on "over the air" broadcasting with an antenna (set-top or rooftop) to receive a signal will be affected by the cutoff of analog broadcasts in 2009. You will need to consider one of the following options:

Purchase a digital-to-analog converter box that plugs into an existing television. The boxes, which are expected to cost between $40 - 70 will be available for purchase in 2008. Beginning in February 2008, U.S. households can request up to two coupons valued at $40 each. Each coupon can go toward the purchase of a single set-top converter box that will allow you to continue watching FREE "over-the-air" television on an analog set.

Subscribe to a cable, satellite or telecommunications service provider if all desired local broadcast stations are carried by that service.
Purchase a new television set with a built in digital tuner.

Any of these steps will ensure that "over-the-air" television consumers will continue to receive programming.

To apply online for your Digital TV converter box coupon goto:

www.dtv2009.gov

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Seeing a movie in a theater is a special experience. The movie is shown on a large, rectangular screen. Behind the screen are three banks of speakers - left, center, and right. High up on both sides of the theater are even more speakers. The sound of the movie follows the action on the screen, coming from the front, sides, and rear of the theater. You are enveloped and surrounded by the movie and its full spectrum of emotion and excitement. Which is precisely how the movie's producer and director planned it.

At home, you watch the same movie on a much smaller screen (maybe not, with the sound reproduced through the speakers in your TV. The emotion and excitement of the movie is considerably diminished. You may well wonder why you liked the movie so much when you saw it at the theater!

Wonder no more. Movie excitement is a combination of picture and sound. Movie producers spend millions of dollars on the soundtrack alone. Watch a movie without the sound effects planned by the producer, and you're having a different experience than the movie was intended to provide.

A Home Theater makes it possible to enjoy movies more like the producers intended - on a decent-sized screen with exciting all-around-you sound. In its simplest form, a basic Home Theater system consists of a digital TV, a 5.1 digital surround sound system, and a DVD player. More elaborate systems can include a wide-screen projection TV, or better yet, an overhead projector with dedicated screen and sophisticated electronics DTS & 7.1 Dolby Digital surround. Now we can add High definition Blu-Ray players. Movies on conventional DVDs look and sound great but HDTV programming from an off-air antenna, or the HD channels from DISH Network and DirecTV are absolutely astonishing! And since the audio standard for HDTV is 5.1 digital surround, the sound is High Definition too!

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On February 17, 2009 Television Will Evolve