It's not illegal to sell them, it's illegal to manufacture them. Any NTSC televisions that the retailers still have can still be sold. It's not until the retailers sell through the overstock of the NTSC televisions that you will see them disappear from the shelves. Sure, there may be some states where they have sold through already, but here in MD it is still hard to even find a tv under 26 inches which has ATSC already built into it.
Tim, it IS illegal to sell them, which is why all retailers were required by federal law to pull any and all analog TVs without ATSC tuners from their shelves at midnight 2/28. If they were still allowed to sell them, they would be. But they aren't, so they don't.
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Tim @ May 8th 2007 3:02PM
It's not illegal to sell them, it's illegal to manufacture them. Any NTSC televisions that the retailers still have can still be sold. It's not until the retailers sell through the overstock of the NTSC televisions that you will see them disappear from the shelves. Sure, there may be some states where they have sold through already, but here in MD it is still hard to even find a tv under 26 inches which has ATSC already built into it.
MrSatyre @ Mar 16th 2007 3:59PM
Tim, it IS illegal to sell them, which is why all retailers were required by federal law to pull any and all analog TVs without ATSC tuners from their shelves at midnight 2/28. If they were still allowed to sell them, they would be. But they aren't, so they don't.