Did you get the digital converter box?

[question everything]

If so, what kind? is it working with rabbit ears?

Last Friday we lost cable, and did not get it back until Wednesday. Apparently our neighbor cut "our" cable. He did not experience any problems with his service.

Thankfully, we still have the rabbit ears one that allowed us to watch the inauguration. And.. a few days ago we got our coupons.

It has a list of where to purchase them which is kinda strange: a major food store?

[Captain Hilts]

1. I have one and the special AWAC-looking antenna. Useless. My signal is too weak. nt

[skeewee08]

2. We got one at work for the employees break room at Wal-Mart

[madokie]

3. Yes we did

one is a motorola and not sure about the other one but I connected the motorola and it works fine with the rabbit ears we bought at the same time for it, the antenna is also compatible with the old teevee signal. My son was using a coat hanger with a piece of aluminum foil on it for a while and it seemed to work fine too. Have to keep in mind we are only about 25 miles from the tower where they all broadcast from around here

[Belial]

4. Not too strange..

When they provided the coupons they didn't want to appear they were favor one type of place.. and well.. most people need to buy food and you cannot make things to inconvenient for people..

[question everything]

11. I just wonder where they keep them

Not in the produce isle, or the dairy..

Perhaps where they keep batteries and lottery tickets..

[Kitty Herder]

5. My brother gave me his. Works great.

He bought one and then later decided to buy a brand new tv, so he passed it along to someone who needed it. Freebies are always nice.

It works just fine, but we've always had good television reception from our rooftop antenna, (eta:)so I think this may account for the good reception more than the converter box itself. I've heard the converter boxes don't work well with rabbit ears.

(Edited for clarity.)

[question everything]

10. Any idea the brand of your converter? Thanks

[Kitty Herder]

15. It's a Magnavox. On edit: It may not help.

I even looked up the model number for ya: TB100MG9

Edited to add: I think the reason I've have such good reception is that I have a good, large rooftop antenna. I've heard that the converters don't work well with rabbit ears. So your problem may be your antenna, not your converter box.

[GentryDixon]

6. We did.

Hooked it up to rabbit ears for local channels in our summer residence. The rabbit ears work very well, and we have many more channels. I can't remember the brand, as it was about 6 months ago, and I am not there to look at it.

[Tammie]

7. Yes, I bought one.

Bought a Zenith and am using it with just a regular antenna. Works just fine.

[eShirl]

8. nope; we only get 2 broadcast channels now, so not really worth it

most TV we watch is actually over the internet anyway

[we can do it]

9. I Still Need A Coupon - Anyone Have A Spare?

We seldom watch the tube, but it would be good to have it if we wanted to.

[question everything]

12. Did you request one?

I did, last month, was promised a ship date of Jan 9 and got it a few days ago so it worked well - the coupons part, at least.

[we can do it]

33. Yes But It Hasn't Arrived

[jillan]

13. Go to www.dtv2009.com

But check this out - yesterday I was in Walmart (yeah I shop there)
and they had TV's - not the flat kind - the other kind - for $144 - and they were all set up for the digital conversion.


We're lucky because we have satellite and it's automatic.

[alfredo]

14. Zenith makes a good one. The RCA 12 position antenna is good.

It handles UHF and VHF.


If you are handy, you can make a good antenna out of six wire hangers, some wood and screws.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw

[blogslut]

16. No

If I do anything, I'll get an ATSC tuner card for my PC. I've been without television for a year now and have managed to view practically anything I want, online. The tuner card will let me pick up local digital networks as well as record video so, to me, the tuner card is the preferable setup.

[question everything]

17. Yes, viewing online is nice except when... you cannot get online

as happened to us for almost a week.

And I am not going to watch an hour program at work or even at a public libarary.

Perhaps at a WI FI cafe..

[blogslut]

20. With a tuner card, your PC becomes a HiDef television

If you need to, you can hook the cable or satellite into their respective ports on the tuner card. :)

[stlsaxman]

18. got a "digitalstream"... when it works it's great. when not- it sucks bad!

looking to get a USB ATSC tuner for my Mac mini and be done with it.

[question everything]

30. OK, what's ATSC tuner? Since I use a Mac, too. (nt)

[stlsaxman]

32. ATSC is the new digital format... NTSC is the old anolog format.

Just remember "NTSC" means "Never The Same Color"

and "ATSC" is "Always The Same Color"

[L0oniX]

19. Better get a digital antenna too or you won't be watching much tv.

[question everything]

26. Thanks. I was not aware of this (nt)

[stlsaxman]

31. ATSC is transmitted primarily on UHF so most antenna will do.

[Raine]

21. I got Zenith

it supposed to be one of the best.:shrug: I have cable but I have a couple TVs that aren't connected to it so I had to get boxes for them. The rabbit ears I had for those TVs were just cheapies and I need better ones cause now they don't pull in much with the converter boxes. :argh: :-(

[Mugu]

22. Years ago I got a satellite dish because the roof top antenna didn't work well.

I purchased a converter box and using that old antenna get a great picture.

[Poiuyt]

23. Don't need one. I have cable.

[question everything]

27. So do I. Except when the cable is cut and Comcast takes almost

a week to come around, after me yelling at them. So I was glad for that one TV that gets the regular networks - to watch the inauguration.

[cynatnite]

24. My husband uses his out on the road and he LOVES it...

We have two of them. I have rabbit ears and husband uses his truck antenna. We got them from Walmart.

[proud patriot]

25. My cable co is taking care of everything

:hi:

[question everything]

28. As long as the cables are intact, or there is no "outage" in the area

and the technicians are "aware of it."

[proud patriot]

29. I have had broadband now for years

Works great so far .