Best Buy stops selling analog TVs
From Times Wire Services
Best Buy Co., the largest U.S. consumer-electronics retailer, stopped selling analog televisions this month in advance of the transition to digital broadcasts in 2009.
The Richfield, Minn., company is the first national retailer to pull analog TVs from its shelves. It said it would stock digital-TV converter boxes starting in 2008.
Best Buy is trying to fend off Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by branding itself as the knowledgeable retailer as consumers navigate new rules and technology for digital television.
