DTV converter boxes could run out, industry warns

February 6, 2009 By PETER SVENSSON , AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Stores could soon run out of the federally subsidized boxes that let an older TV set receive new digital signals, the Consumer Electronics Association has warned.

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so what, we all run out now in a frenzy & speed the run out?
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