DTV coupons begin flowing once more, waitlist should vanish in 3 weeks

For all of you still waiting for a little governmental assistance in buying that DTV converter box that you should've purchased months ago (we kid... a little), we've excellent news. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which is overseeing the program, has announced that it has finally begun to ship $40 vouchers towards the purchase of these very boxes once more. The waitlist has grown some 4.1 million deep since the subsidy program ran dry back in January, but the agency is hoping to have that cleared within three weeks. Of course, you better not procrastinate on your second chance -- who knows how quickly the $650 million it has left will last.

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2009 10:34AM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2009 10:45AM]

Cue howls of outrage... 3... 2... 1...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2009 11:21AM]

i bet it won't take 3 weeks for the coupon list to vanish, i think it will end up taking until the june 12th deadline for this fiasco to end.

I just want this nightmare to end!

The date (2/17/09) should of never been changed in the first place because now in Massachusetts, Comcast told me Massachusetts residents (other than Boston and Brookline) would have to wait until early July instead of their earlier projection of April for 40 expected new HD channels because of this tragedy of a plan.

I know the DTV has nothing to do with HD but come on, many Comcast Customers have been waiting for HD Channels for at least 2 years now and still haven't gotten any really good ones to watch, 43 Here in Fall River, Ma By the way and looks like i have another waiting game to play until Fios comes to Southeastern New England until at least mid 2012. Finally these "Comcast Promises" like more HD and more HD Choices will come back to bite them in the long run and ultimately show signs that Comcast is not loyal to their own High paying HD customers.