Americans are likely to put off purchasing converter boxes
According to Christopher A. McLean, Executive Director of the Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition, in Wilmington, N.C., where the FCC had designated the town as the first test market, consumers put off buying converter boxes until the weekend before the conversion (0:43).
December 15, 2008
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