Bert - You seem to be having quite a good time at this. ;-) Some of us kidded you forever for not getting an ATSC receiver and now=20 suddenly you have two of them. - Tom Albert Manfredi wrote: > We went to Circuit City yesterday and bought a brand new,=20 > still-not-in-their-inventory-system Digital Stream 3150 Plus. No specia= l=20 > deal, it was the basic $229 price, but I figured if it was anything lik= e the=20 > Accurian, at least we'd have a good chance it would work well. >=20 > Turns out, this Digital Stream is virtually identical to the Accurian, = in=20 > terms of features and performance. The only differences I could see are= that=20 > the component outputs can also be set to RGB (but using the same three = RCA=20 > jacks as YPbPr, not the PC-standard RGB multipin connector). The other = > difference is that, much to my relief, there is a sort of master volume= =20 > control. You press the "select" button while watching TV, and a volume = > control bar appears on the screen, along with a basic signal strength m= eter=20 > and station/program description, which the Accurian also displays. The = > volume was set rather low at the factory, which had me a little concern= ed=20 > until I discovered this additional control. Aside from that, this is ab= out=20 > as close to the Accurian as you can be. The menus are identical. >=20 > First thing I did was to set it up downstairs, in place of the Accurian= =2E It=20 > auto-scanned channels and, with the external antennas, found exactly th= e=20 > same ones the Accurian had found. Good deal. >=20 > Then I took the unit upstairs, to "transition" our upstairs setup to AT= SC.=20 > With the Radio Shack double bowtie, and some experimentation of course,= the=20 > STB found all the local stations, minus the aforementioned WETA (PBS Ch= 26)=20 > and minus the aforementioned UPN 20. But it also managed to receive one= =20 > Baltimore station, CBS 13, which in digital is of course a UHF channel,= as=20 > are all digital channels in this area. >=20 > We had marginal reception of NBC 4 at first. I tried the antenna close = to=20 > the window, but that didn't help. Turns out, the original position, whi= ch=20 > worked best for analog, was still the best. I tried touching one of the= VHF=20 > rabbit ears, and that helped a lot. While I was contemplating adding a = wire=20 > to that rabbit ear, I tried instead to simply collapse down the other V= HF=20 > ear. That did the trick. So now, with the antenna in that one location = on=20 > top of the cabinet, all local channels, and CBS 13 from Baltimore, are = > available (minus those mentioned). >=20 > I can safely say that the experience of receiving ATSC via rabbit ears = was=20 > very much the same as fussing with rabbit ears for NTSC, in our case. I= t=20 > took no longer to find the sweet spot. Walking around does not seem to = > affect reception, now that I solved the NBC 4 reception issue by collap= sing=20 > the one VHF ear. Perhaps an antenna with more gain, like the Silver Sen= sor,=20 > would find more Baltimore stations, but then my bet is that it would be= more=20 > touchy about all the local stations. >=20 > Bert >=20 > _________________________________________________________________ > Don=92t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!=20 > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ >=20 > =20 > =20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: >=20 > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at = FreeLists.org=20 >=20 > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word = unsubscribe in the subject line. >=20 >=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.