[opendtv] My first dtv converter box
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:14:24 -0400
While I've used various HDPC cards and HDTV's for some years but this
past weekend I played with my first low priced converter box.
I visited my mom for Easter. During the winter season she lives off in
the boonies in central Florida, away from most everything. She has Dish
TV but uses a small second TV with a whip antenna to get a somewhat
snowy picture on one channel in the bedroom.
Apparently on impulse and without coupon she had purchased one of the
low priced converter boxes for this. When I arrived I found I was in
charge of installing it. ;-)
Predictably it got no channels. She was not interested in hooking it up
to the (dead) rotor antenna on about a 35 foot tower that my dad used to
use before the satellite dish. She was also not interested in running a
cable thru the wall where the E* box was exactly on the other side in
the living room.
She just said she could return the box, and would.
I don't blame this on ATSC, or poor converter boxes, and I don't know
how typical this scenario was. But as my only attempt to set up a
converter box for a older family member I thought it was an interesting
anecdote.
- Tom
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