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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday fined Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc. and other retailers $3.9 million combined for failing to properly label that analog-only TVs will need to be retrofitted after the switch to digital TV next year.
An FCC rule, adopted in May, requires retailers to display or affix “consumer alert” labels to analog-only TV equipment — including TVs, DVDs, videocassette recorders and digital video recorders — that says it will not receive signals after the nationwide digital transition without a special converter box.
