Ready For Some Football?

By: Todd Baucher - Email

Updated: Wed 10:32 AM, Jan 30, 2013

If you're going to watch the big game, you need a big TV.

That's what a lot of football fans decide, in the weeks leading up every year to the Super Bowl.

The co-owner of Shadix TV Sales and Service in Marietta says not only do sales of larger TVs spike at this time of the year, so do subscriptions to satellite TV services.

That usually gives electronics stores a big post-holiday smile.

"This month has been a pretty good month," says Tom Shaad. "We've had a lot of satellite sales and a lot of television sales. I don't know if it's the economy, or people are anticipating a good Super Bowl. That we'll have to see."

How much those sales increase depends on who's actually playing in the Super Bowl.

For instance, they were a little better a few years ago, Shaad says, when the Pittsburgh Steelers were the AFCs representatives in the game for all the marbles.

Digital TV: Stepping into the Future

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Digital Transition Information

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What You Need to Know

TV sets that currently receive programming through cable or satellite are not likely to be affected by the transition to digital.

However, TV sets that rely on "over the air" broadcasting with an antenna (set-top or rooftop) to receive a signal will be affected by the cutoff of analog broadcasts in 2009. You will need to consider one of the following options:

Purchase a digital-to-analog converter box that plugs into an existing television. The boxes, which are expected to cost between $50 - 70 will be available for purchase in 2008. Beginning on January 1, 2008, U.S. households can request up to two coupons valued at $40 each. Each coupon can go toward the purchase of a single set-top converter box that will allow you to continue watching FREE "over-the-air" television on an analog set.
Subscribe to a cable, satellite or telecommunications service provider if all desired local broadcast stations are carried by that service.
Purchase a new television set with a built in digital tuner.

Any of these steps will ensure that "over-the-air" television consumers will continue to receive programming.