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09-26-08, 11:47 AM
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Maags MacLoch wanted to prepare for the coming transition to digital television. Using a $$40 federal subsidy, the Web site designer bought a converter box and hooked it up at her home in the Ozark Mountains. ``It just wouldn't work,'' says MacLoch, 55, who lives in rural northwest Arkansas. The paperback-size RCA box wasn't able to find a digital signal strong enough to produce a picture on her analog TV. ``I'm hoping they'll do something to fix that,'' she said in a ...

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