Retailers, Makers Fined $6.6 Million for Digital TV
US federal regulators fined Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Sears, Frys and other retailers $3.9 million in all for not properly labeling analog-only TVs for the switch to digital TV next year. The FCC also gave $2.7 million in fines to other companies for violating other digital TV rules that involve shipping analog equipment and blocking technologies such as the V-chip. Retailers in USA must display or affix "consumer alert" labels to analog-only TV equipment (TVs, DVDs, videocassette recorders and DVRs) that says it will not receive signals after the nationwide digital transition - without a special converter box. The FCC conducted numerous inspections, issued warnings to companies, whose stores and Web sites across the country were in violation of the rule: all apparently went unheeded. Go Who and How Much?
