With the DTV Transition date of February 17, 2009 now only about 100 days away, over 33 million converter box coupons have been requested, but only 13.5 million have been redeemed so far. For more details, check out the latest DTV Transition status report from TV Week. If you haven't applied for your $40 converter box coupon yet, or don't know if you need one, check out my DTV Transition Survival Guide.
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The reason so many didn’t use the converter coupons is because stores didn’t get them in before the first batches sent out expired.