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Television Convert Box. Have You Used One?
I have a friend who does not have cable service. Why? It is a long story. Kind of funny but I will save that for another day.
She received a voucher to get a converter box so she could receive television channels using rabbit ears. Until she received the converter box, she could only get 3 snowy channels. It wasn't worth watching. Since she hooked up the converter box and it scanned to see how many stations were available to her, she now gets 21 channels that are crystal clear. I was amazed to hear that.
Has anyone else had an experience or know of anyone who has had with a converter box for their television? Do they get more stations that what is in their area?
The reason I am asking is because in Birmingham, we only have 4 stations.
She received a voucher to get a converter box so she could receive television channels using rabbit ears. Until she received the converter box, she could only get 3 snowy channels. It wasn't worth watching. Since she hooked up the converter box and it scanned to see how many stations were available to her, she now gets 21 channels that are crystal clear. I was amazed to hear that.
Has anyone else had an experience or know of anyone who has had with a converter box for their television? Do they get more stations that what is in their area?
The reason I am asking is because in Birmingham, we only have 4 stations.
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Permalink Reply by Pyralis on -
I have never used one, but pretty soon it will be the only option to receive over-the-air broadcasts in the United States with an older analog TV. I live in Canada, but since a lot of the cable channels we get are from the States we've been seeing the advertisements about the big analog to digital switch over as well. So if you want to be able to get any over-the-air TV at all in the near future a digital converter box or a TV with a digital tuner built in will be your only option.
If you currently have analog cable service you will not be affected by the switch over, only over-the-air TV is affected.
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Permalink Reply by Steve on -
I have two of them on both of my televisions and I love the the picture quality it's awesome until you get a good cross wind or the weather becomes crappy... then it begins to break up.. Providing your city carries NBC CBS ABC FOX PBS AND THE WB ( you would have to live in bfe not to recieve those channels ) you will indeed recieve more channels.. I currently recieve 32 channels on both of my televisions, but rarely watch them cause i keep my nose buried into this computer. I guess you can call me cheap since I refuse to pay for cable service.
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Permalink Reply by JS on -
I have not used the kind you have in the US, but I've used one. In fact, I used one today. Picture is crystal clear on all SD channels. And there is also an HD channel, although I haven't yet had the chance to see HD-quality picture on it as the box is connected to the TV via a scart cable.
The same telly used to show 3 SD channels and no HD channels over terrestrial TV. It now shows over 20 SD channels and 1 HD channel over terrestrial digital TV.
The picture is brilliant most of the time, but when there's bad weather, some channels suffer.
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Permalink Reply by Jorge on -
YES, it's sooooo much better than anaolog.
I personally have no need for it in my house because we have cable, but we bought two anyway with gov coupons, and I hooked one up to an old tv and got about 35 channels (including about 10 HD). Most of the national networks and some local stations have subchannels like NBC for example is channel 5 here, then 5.1 is NBC HD(works if you have HDTV), 5.2 is more localized NBC programming, 5.3 is weather from our local news. So many stations function like this so you pick up more channels without hiking up the numbers like analog used to, I think it's awesome and it gives new life to those older TVs that still work perfectly fine.
Now with HDTVs, these aren't even necessary because they already have the converter integrated so just plug in your antenna and enjoy the free HD!
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Permalink Reply by SassySweetBren on -
Thanks for the replies. Just think how people were so upset about this before it finally happened.
Now, my friend is getting about 17 more channels than before and the picture is better than my cable.
I am just thankful this is over with so that people who were so afraid of it, can now see how awesome it is.
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