digital TV

There will be alot of hype around in the next while would be nice to have a forum dedicated to it and a list (sticky) of FTA recivers with the tuner to scan for these channels with an antenna and no dish will help people have some patience for downtime on Bev and Charlie good venue to sell some recivers with the tuners in them.

Thanks we'll look in to that ,,

would be a real good time for this if charlie goes N3 we could still have some HD channels too.

I agree kneedeep, good idea

DTV wont happen till june 2009 i would say get a sub or cable,but yet still a good idea for the 6 million people that only have antenna.

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The DTV (Digital Converter Box) boxes that are being bought for $50-$80.00 will NOT give you a High Def picture...

They were designed for use with the basic 480p Tv.... Your picture is better but not HD.

For a high def tuner you are going to be paying a couple hundred dollars.

Example.... Say you have a LCD Tv that is 720p.... As far as I know the digital converter box for the basic Tv will not even give you the 720 signal and possibly not even work at all.

So I purchased the:

But it is for use with the 720p Tv.

You know though that now the price of TV's are down and it would possibly be wiser to just buy the HDTV instead of the $200. DTV box.

Myself.... The antenna will pull in so many channels that a sub is not needed plus with the External Hard Drive (500gb) there is more than 500 hours or recording to watch when FTA goes dark.

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Not testing any receiver. All information is to help a tester to understand the "World of FTA". Educational info only.

Even if the full roll to DTV does not happen until june there are channels that already broadcast a digital signal. I know of two in my area. The ability of a sat box to receive these would be a factor in the choice of my next box. Why by two boxes when one will do. The switchover in Canada will not come for a couple of years yet but I live close enough to the states that I can receive American OTA.

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the thing here is SHOULD we have a digital TV area in the forums ??
and if so what shall we add ?

digital TV :General Discussion
digital TV : HD Channels
and so on


I don't really see much on it to build up a area for
so please post all you think we should have - if anything