Honestly, how many people that go into Best Buy really use OTA for analog reception. The DTV migration only affects those people and most of them are old people or really poor people. I don't see either of these demographics in Best Buy much. I think what is happening is Best Buy milking confused customers that have money.
As a former manager at Best Buy i can tell you it is all about location. In southern Indiana where i was a manager many people use OTA and that is it. Cable companies will not pay to run lines to them and many dislike Satellite. Some people just don't watch tv that much around here either. We would get all types of people coming to our store because it was either us or Walmart/Target since we closed down the Circuit by us many years ago and the next closest electronics store was 50 miles away. Best Buy may not always have the most informed people but atleast you can find someone to talk to that knows something, as opposed to if you can find someone at all at walmart.
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Honestly, how many people that go into Best Buy really use OTA for analog reception. The DTV migration only affects those people and most of them are old people or really poor people. I don't see either of these demographics in Best Buy much. I think what is happening is Best Buy milking confused customers that have money.
As a former manager at Best Buy i can tell you it is all about location. In southern Indiana where i was a manager many people use OTA and that is it. Cable companies will not pay to run lines to them and many dislike Satellite. Some people just don't watch tv that much around here either. We would get all types of people coming to our store because it was either us or Walmart/Target since we closed down the Circuit by us many years ago and the next closest electronics store was 50 miles away. Best Buy may not always have the most informed people but atleast you can find someone to talk to that knows something, as opposed to if you can find someone at all at walmart.