[opendtv] Re: My first dtv converter box
- From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:23:15 -0400
Our experience in Port Charlotte, FL was quite different, both with a
Magnavox converter from Walmart and with a Zenith converter from Circuit
City. We have aluminum foil on the concrete cinder block walls, but with
the rabbit ears and ring antenna set in the bay window reception is good,
except when there is lightning in severe rainstorms. We have better
reception than we had with NTSC, especially for ABC out of Sarasota.
Did you play with antenna location?
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Barry" <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "opendtv" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:14 PM
Subject: [opendtv] My first dtv converter box
> 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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