{"id":41075,"date":"2009-11-12T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=124027"},"modified":"2009-11-12T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T03:20:07","slug":"dtv-coupon-time-is-over-many-of-you-didn%e2%80%99t-care-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41075","title":{"rendered":"DTV coupon time is over! Many of you didn\u2019t care, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dtv_coupon.gif\" alt=\"dtv_coupon\" title=\"dtv_coupon\" width=\"227\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124029\" \/><br \/>\nThe government mailed out 64 million $40 coupons for DTV conversion. The program ended on the 9th, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastingcable.com\/article\/388662-DTV_Coupon_Redemption_Ends_With_Over_1_Billion_Worth_Unused.php\">with 35 million of the coupons used<\/a>. How can this be? There must be at least half a billion TVs in the US, and a lot of those households or stores needed to upgrade to digital. Do they not like free money? Did they get theirs through magic, or a secret non-government program? <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mystery.png\" width=\"65\" height=\"22\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124028\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more info at the coupon website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dtv2009.gov\/\">good luck<\/a>. It&#8217;s dead for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/D2u3asjN0yDlQXZBMMZVSdtQy1U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/D2u3asjN0yDlQXZBMMZVSdtQy1U\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/D2u3asjN0yDlQXZBMMZVSdtQy1U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/D2u3asjN0yDlQXZBMMZVSdtQy1U\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=e0TiEN6vLSs:OfE65go-RJA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=e0TiEN6vLSs:OfE65go-RJA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=e0TiEN6vLSs:OfE65go-RJA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=e0TiEN6vLSs:OfE65go-RJA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=e0TiEN6vLSs:OfE65go-RJA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government mailed out 64 million $40 coupons for DTV conversion. The program ended on the 9th, with 35 million of the coupons used. How can this be? There must be at least half a billion TVs in the US, and a lot of those households or stores needed to upgrade to digital. Do they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}