FCC's Analog Tuner Requirement for TVs To Sunset August 2017

The FCC's analog tuner requirement for TVs will sunset Aug. 31, 2017, under an order that the commission unanimously approved Thursday that's designed to mitigate the incentive auction’s impact on low-power TV stations and translators. The CE industry has said that devices that can receive analog will still be available by August 2017 and that it will take years after that date for devices without such tuners to completely supplant those that have them.