shercando
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join:2001-03-05
Madison, WI
 ·AT&T Midwest
| TV Converter Boxes
As I wait for AT&T U-verse or a recent promise of possible Dish Network for our apartment building I bought a Samsung SIR T151 HDTV converter box about a year and a half ago. I get beautiful HDTV from off-the-air rabbit ears from 12 free channels.
Am I right in believing that my Samsung SIR T151 set top box does all I need to meet the coming TV digital order? --or do I need to buy a new converter box? |
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Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH | for Dish Services you will need their box. That will not work with Dish or DirecTV services. |
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ArgMeMatey
join:2001-08-09
Milwaukee, WI | reply to shercando
I took a quick look at those specs and yes, it looks OK. As long as it gets ATSC channels, you are fine.
As previously stated, it's a doorstop if you get U-verse or Dish, unless you want to run two inputs to your TV. |
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shercando
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join:2001-03-05
Madison, WI
·AT&T Midwest
| reply to shercando
Thanks but I did say "AS I WAIT --I bought --" I know that I would have no use for it with subscription services from any source. 
For me it is and always has been just for off the air programming in the meantime. I never dreamed that AT&T would take so long to get U-verse here.
I just wanted to know if something different is going to happen to digital output next year making older converter boxes like mine obsolete. All the warnings say If you now watch TV using an antenna, you must buy a new converter box.
That just isn't true as many of us have capable boxes unless they are jazzing up the signal to prevent it. That is what I wanted to know because their warnings say I will need a new converter box. There are lots and lots of us already using converter boxes that don't need to buy new converter boxes otherwise.
I am so pleased with what I am getting I may not subscribe to U-verse after all. I am pretty upset with their late arrival as it is. Also, our building management is trying to make a deal with Dish that may be very attractive as well but after more than 18 months of happiness with my box and OTA HDTV I may not switch even then.
Thanks for confirming that my box is still OK for the changeover. |
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ArgMeMatey
join:2001-08-09
Milwaukee, WI
·AT&T Midwest
| said by shercando  : ... I did say "AS I WAIT --I bought --" ... There are lots and lots of us already using converter boxes that don't need to buy new converter boxes otherwise. Yep, you did say that. Understood.
Regarding Lots and Lots, well, that depends on how you define Lots. It's not like a Score which means twenty of something.
Quoted sources seem to suggest that some large majority of the US population use a TV source other than OTA. So with 300 million people, if 60 million people are using OTA, that would mean lots. But if only 1 million actually bought tuners before the coupon program, is that lots?
In any case, it is assumed that people who previously bought an ATSC tuner knew what they were buying and why. Therefore you are not the target audience for that announcement, inaccurate as it may be. They are trying to reach the people who don't know and won't care until the big day when they will suddenly have to read a newspaper to figure out why their TV stopped working.
Any other nits you want me to pick?
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