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The real fun will be all the people who already have the correct DTV gear wondering where the digital channels went on Feb-17th when most of the current DTV channels move.
One of the glossed over aspects of the DTV transition is the "channel rescan" step. Even people getting separate DTV boxes prior to Feb-17th must perform the "rescan" step.
I wager a lot of DTV boxes are going to be returned as defective despite being perfectly fine; only requiring a "channel rescan" to get working again.
Another misconception is that DTV is UHF only ... not true. DTV channels, after transition, will be spread out among VHF and UHF. And many current DTV channels will increase transmission power after transition.
In regards to DTV boxes ... a few months after the $40 government coupon program ends, it's highly probable that DTV boxes will then drop to around $10, which is what the boxes should have been priced at all along, but I digress.
Ron
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