Digital TV Switch to Wipe Out Your Portable TV?

The Columbus Dispatch reports that current battery-powered TVs will likely not be able to display new digital signals when the nation switches to Digital TV on February 17, 2009. Like other analog sets, your portable TV would need a digital converter box to convert the digital signals to analog so you could continue to watch television. However, it appears that no one is making a portable converter box that would operate with current portable TVs.
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