FCC regulations required warning signs to be displayed next to all applicable products displayed in store and on a retail website.  This policy has been in effect since May 25, 2007.  However, nearly a year later, Circuit City and Best Buy are challenging the fines.

Among the retailers' complaints are; the required warning signs were never made available, the acts of the retailers were not willful, and that the FCC does not have jurisdiction over the sales of retailers.  The notion of whether or not the FCC has jurisdiction over the sales at retail stores is an interesting concept, but the other two complaints hold no water.

Effective February 17, 2009 all analog tuners will no longer be able to receive analog broadcasts.  However, cable and satellite providers will be required to provider a digital to analog converter for it's customers uup through 2012.  The sigital switchover should not be a major deal to consumers as there is only a relatively small market of consumers that are still using an antenna on the roof to analog TV.  The majority are cable/satellite customers.  So, a simple converter will keep your analog CRT TV humming for years to come.  These converters are widely used in set top boxes already, allowing for an analog coaxial output or RCA analog output.