Come on, the only reason the converter box exists is for people who don't have any money, are stubborn or ornery. We have known about this conversion for years. People have had plenty of time to get their money out of the old CRT analog sets. It was like touch tone phones, I know people to this day have a rotary dial phone because they are too stubborn to get a TT phone. One of the problems was that manufactures had a large quantity of old analog sets to unload, they dumped them at cheap prices to get rid of them and now the people who bought them are pissed because they will become sort of useless. Besides, anyone on this board is supposed to be a monger, if so, you can afford P4P, so quit being cheap and get a new set. Hell, you can buy a compliant set for the price of a session.