My Accurian does not work at my house, 8VSB does not work at my house - can't watch a ball game without glitches right at the biggest plays. I don't even bother any more - I have DirecTV with HDTV. I ordered my coupon - just one, so I can experience what the public has to experience with trying to buy and make the things work. ATSC is still crap, has always been crap, will always remain crap. -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Manfredi, Albert E Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:50 PM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: Rush on DTV-Converter-Box Coupons Tom Barry wrote: > Hey, I've never actually used it much but still think my $89 > Accurian was a really good deal. I'll bet I could still sell > it for that much. Aha, see? You pack rat! ;) Instead, what attracted me much more than the extra low price, still low now for an HDTV STB, was that the frenzy created made people divulge that these were also very good performers. Who knew? I would have been perfectly happy to have gone off to the Digital Stream HD3150 Plus instead, at $229, had I known then that they were exactly the same. At the time, I was looking for something even slightly resembling state of the art, in a stand-alone STB. I use both of these STBs regularly still. Until I buy my new 42" LCD ... 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.