[real-eyes] Re: Digital Ready TV Radio Alternatives
- From: "Andrea Breier" <abreier@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:05:54 -0500
What a hoot!!!
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Andrea M. Breier
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From: "Reginald George" <sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:50 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] Digital Ready TV Radio Alternatives
>I named this thread very carefully in hopes that as new products come out
>we can hold on to it. In researching this for the five hundredth time I
>found the following post in an Amazon digital transition discussion. I
>can't believe I didn't think of it myself. Only bad part is it still
>requires electricity and a fixed installation so it really doesn't solve
>the problem of picking up the audio of current over the air TV signals on
>something small and portable. The 7 inch TVs that are out cost almost $200
>and eat batteries. Hopefully someone will find a way to make an affordable
>TV radio that will pick up the new digital channels. Till then, there's
>the USB TV tuners, and this.
> R. Allen says:
> Hey there's a solution to this that really works. I have done it. I
> listened to TV audio at work and was in desperate shape when the
> transition happened. Here's the solution and it's not too bad
>
> You get one of those digital converter boxes paid for with the government
> issued coupon. Make sure it is a model with the two audio OUT plugs on the
> back. (Most have this I believe.)
> Then hook up an antenna.
> Then you hook up your headphones to the audio out plugs on the back of the
> digital converter box using special adapters from Radio Shack. (The radio
> shack people might help you find them..they're not that common.)
> Then you connect up a TV (one time only.)
> Navigate to the auto scan and scan in all your stations.
> Then get rid of the TV and just use the converter box remote control to
> tune in stations and adjust the volume.
> The sound is great. And all you need is a converter box, the headphones,
> antenna and those audio cable adapters,(about $10 at Radio Shack). IT
> works!!! Instead of headphones you could also connect the audio out on the
> converter box to a stereo system with speakers. Also, one drawback, you
> have to flip through the channels blindly with no indicator to see what
> channel you are on. But you get used to that. Someday the Digital TV
> converter boxes might have a channel display. This really does work fine,
> the stereo TV audio signal is quite good. -Rick Allen, Loudonville, NY
>
> Here's a website I made with diagram and guide on using a converter box to
> listen to Digital TV. You don't need a radio or TV set. The converter box
> is your "radio"
>
> http://www.lustronconnection.org/digitaltvonradio/
>
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