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	Letter to the FCC: Dear Commissioners, Please stand up for consumers and stop blatant patent abuses from foreign companies that increase the price of digital TVs in the United States. While Americans are willing to pay a fair price for digital televisions, we are not willing to be victim to uncontrolled price gouging. With the conversion to digital television slated for June 12, 2009, consumers will be overcharged up to $1 billion and perhaps more by parties controlling rights to use the ATSC digital television standard adopted by the FCC in 1996. You can stop this! Please hold these patent holders to their “free or reasonable” licensing obligation. Sincerely,

Write the FCC

Help protect American consumers from uncontrolled price gouging by ATSC digital television standard patent holders. You can help encourage the FCC to keep these patent holders accountable and bring down the price of digital TVs in the United States by writing the FCC.

If the FCC takes action to prevent these patent holders from overcharging American consumers, companies like VIZIO and Westinghouse Digital will pass these savings on to the consumer. This could represent a savings of $30 per digital TV.

With the digital transition date approaching on June 12, 2009, Americans have no choice. Anyone who buys a television must pay the ATSC tolls, and with analog service going dark, Americans must buy televisions. Unfortunately, in this critical transition year, consumers will be overcharged up to a billion dollars and perhaps even more.

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