DTVuser2009

Piggie

That is hard to say. Back in January and early February, stores were running out and restocks were getting hard to find.

The explanation I read on the web was the converter box makers had guessed at the number of coupons out there, their market share, and had geared down to stop making them.

Then by March there were back in the stores, probably catching a lot of companies in time before they totally geared down.

Now from what I see I think they over produced this time.

My gut prediction while it's a topic.

They will be cleared off the shelves and sent back to the warehouses to make room for Christmas stock. They might have a couple in a corner.

If you haven't noticed they don't stock in the big box stores but put stuff back on the trucks to go to the warehouses. Soon they will want to use that space for something. They will be sold off in lots of 100 or a dozen on that market.

Then they will be all over ebay and flea markets, new ones till about Christmas.

Then it will be a think of the past. Those that have them will be using them or have sold them or in a closet.

Then in about a year, for the next few years used ones will be on ebay and flea markets.

We could make it into a contest

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staticMHZ

once all analog cable systems are gone, in a few years, when digital isn't news to anybody, they'll stop making them or people will just throw them on yard sale tables and flea market stands. Whats this? oh, one of those old converter boxes from years ago. A buck? cool!

Like they did with cable descramblers and VCR's.

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Tim58hsv

Ha! I can do you one better.

Way, way, way back in the day there were UHF boxes made for VHF only tv's. Like todays modern technology you'de tune your VHF tv to channel 3 to pick up UHF stations with the box.

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Jay

No way, they're the ultimate stocking stuffer. I can just see the Radio Shack commercials now.....

There's an idea.

Piggie

The coupon applications end in July. The last coupons will expire the end of Oct. I bet a lot of the manufactures are either on their last run now or soon to be making the last of them. I would guess too most if not all orders for boxes to be made are now over.

Think about it. At some point you go to buy a box, and well you have to buy a TV. Prices have dropped on the TVs already.

What I bought in Nov 2007 for $425 on a super super Thanksgiving day weekend sale can be had now any day of the week for $360. Not a fancy 32 inch but adequate LCD 720p set.

I don't see it as much as I used to but early converters were saving every dime or maxing their credit card because less than 52 inches in 1080p was not HD to them. They also paid upwards of $3 to 4 K dollars! Oh well, they got to watch it a couple years early. It's like buying a new car, why?

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DTVuser2009

Tim that was what i meant. those old 'cable converters' which allowed those with older VHF dial sets (the two knobs, for some unforseen reason hooking the cable to the 'UHF' dial did nothing to help with the higher channels oddly) to get all the cable channels both on VHF And UHF.

I remember one on one of our old consoles that used the dials, but the cable converter needed still someone to go to the box and hit whatever channel it was to get it to tune, no remote there at all. it had a touch tone type pad so for say, Nickelodeon, it was '2-5-ENTER' and there ya go.