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In 2009, when this transition was implemented in the US, there was plentiful advertising and two government coupons for each household to defray the cost of dtv converter boxes. Asked why PSAs are only now being launched less than six months before Canada's dtv transition, Hutton responds by saying the United States "went too early and too big" in its dtv transition and $1 billion set-top converter box coupon programs. So the government put incentives in for families to get up to two digital converter boxes with a coupon.

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