OLD TV's

Remember when your cable provider told you that your TV's would no longer work unless you switched to a digital one?

What your cable company didn't tell you was that about half of those TV's would still work; all you needed was a little box converter.


In England, "This year, the council has recycled 50,000 analogue TVs thrown away by households, of which 30,000 could have been upgraded to receive digital TV signals with a simple £20 set-top box."


They aren't doing a good enough job getting the word out that people are not being forced to buy new televisions when their's work just fine. The cost of getting a new tv and dumping that perfectly functional older TV is quite a bit higher than if you were to spend the $20 on a "set-top" box.

I still have my old television that I bought about 5 years ago for less than $100 and I got the little box hook-up and my TV works better than it did before! Overall, I don't believe that many companies are letting their customers know that they are able to keep their old ones with little to no cost to themselves and the environment!

Here is the Link if your interested in the full article:


http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/the-digital-tv-switch-causes-70-rise-in-electronic-trash.php