Analog turnoff date is set

All that’s left is Bush’s John Hancock to put in stone the deadline for all American televisions to go digital. The date will be February 17, 2009, where all US TVs will either need to be digital or have a digital to analog converter. Luckily for consumers prices are falling too.

This past holiday buying season saw a number of 50-inch plasma HDTV sets selling well under the $1,000 mark. Granted, those were not what you’d call quality equipment, but it’s a sign of things to come. And with Sony’s recent restructuring to increase its focus on flat-panel HDTV sets, we can count on competition to heat up in the low- to mid-range category.

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