A digital converter box takes a digital TV signal and converts it so analog televisions can recognize it and work. It's one option for TV owners when all television signals go digital by Feb. 17, 2009 ...

Donald Lewis doesn't know how digital television works, or why he's being forced to use it. But Lewis, a Kirbyville resident, knows that when he gets home from work, he wants to be able to relax on ...

That's the question a lot of people will be asking after installing one of the converter boxes that will keep their older TV sets tuned into over-the-air broadcasts after Feb. 17, when most stations ...

Councilman Ed Suit, who watches old-fashioned analog TVs with an antenna, says the nationwide conversion to digital television is fraught with problems and misinformation. Suit is glad that Congress ...

The Great Digital TV Revolution occurs tomorrow, and Hair Balls is worried for those of you still clinging to your rabbit ears and MacGyvered-aluminum-foil towers. While we applaud those who have ...

A U.S. government program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money. The U.S. National Telecommunications and ...

That reality hit lawmakers and the incoming Obama administration this week after the Commerce Department ran out of money for coupons to subsidize digital converter boxes. Viewers who don't have cable ...

It's a conversion that won't take place until February, but Siouxlanders are sure shopping for converter boxes that enable older analog televisions to handle digital transmission. Months out from the ...

In less than two months, television broadcasters will go all-digital, permanently shutting off the traditional analog signals they've relied on for more than half a century. Government officials say ...

We have an old TV that is used exclusively for watching DVDs and VHS tapes. Never bothered to hook up a converter box to it, but now I think I want to. Problem is, there's a real rat's nest of cables ...

An unexpected spike in requests has sapped all the money from the federal program that offers coupons for digital TV converter boxes. On Sunday, the program received requests for the last of the 51.5 ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Coming up, a writer who finds humor in life's darkest moments, but first in less than 10 months, television stations across the country will ...