Tech columnist: Transition to digital TV with converter boxes is easy
It's less than a year now when over-the-air analog TV stations will go dark, to be replaced by digital signals that will require consumers who own older TVs connected to antennas to buy either new digital TVs or converter boxes. The federal government is offering coupons that bring the cost of those boxes to about $20.
St Paul Pioneer Press technology writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata recently tested one of those converters.