I believe this is an old article... It starts with: "written by Andrew Hawn on Friday, October 22, 2004" B&H has it listed now for $699, but also found a couple of places that are selling it at $449. There are also some on eBay for less than that... --jay. On 11/8/05 6:02 PM, "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.g4tv.com/gearandgadgets/features/50081/HDTV_Epiphany_.html > > Here's a box that might work well as an ATSC STB. The price > still rather high, $1000, and the built-in tuner is just > NTSC/ATSC, no cable or satellite. But I'm assuming this is > a "proper" LG 5th gen receiver. > > The price seems high especially compared with the other > two boxes listed, each of which also provides DBS > reception and more storage capacity. Of course, for those, > there's also the monthly fee. > > According to that page, Sony is supposed to have a similar > PVR, with CableCard built in, this month. > > As of now, it looks like DVDRs are assumed to be perfectly > acceptable with just the NTSC tuner. With NTSC on the air > still, the assumption must be that anyone using DTT is > doing so only for HD content, and anyone who who would be > satisfied with SDTV is happy to stick with NTSC. I'd say > that's probably a good assumption, but only for early > adopters. > > Bert > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.