Best Buy to continue to offer analog sets in Canada

VANCOUVER – Late last week, word leaked out that Best Buy, one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics retailers, would no longer carry analog TV sets in its stores.Store managers were reportedly informed earlier this month of the move in a company-wide memo. In the U.S., the analog television cut-off date for broadcasters is February 2009, so that market is well ahead of Canada when it comes to digital, or high definition television. Broadcasters in markets of any size, Stateside, have already made the switch to digital broadcasting because they have to return their analog spectrum to the U.S. government...