Maybe now it won't happen in February as planned. Anyway, it's bound to
happen sooner rather than later. Too much money to be made at the
expense of the taxpayer. Here is my problem, maybe someone has a
solution. We live in a fringe reception area and get a few fuzzy
channels plus CBC via an antenna on top of the house. Viewed on a
Toshiba HD CRT 720p/1080i which I have no intention nor need of
replacing anytime soon. Netflix play in HD just fine. It lacks a
HD/digital tuner though so I signed up for the $40 coupon for the set
top box. But if my understanding of the fine print is correct our fuzzy
signal will register as a digital 0 rather than a 1 with the result that
we won't be able to get _any_ signal at all with the possible exception
of the CBC. Another problem is that I have heard that the digital
transmission will be in the UHF range. We aren't able to pick up any UHF
signals even though the antenna has the UHF component.
So these are the options as I see it:
-Forget about TV
-Get a satellite dish. ~$600/yr +equip and install. Might not get
local channels and don't want or care about any of the other crap nor
the bill.
-Get the set top box and hope for the best. Low probability of success.
-Get the set top box and a new antenna to pick up the UHF signal better.
Slightly better possibility of success.
-internet TV.
This last option might be the best choice. I'd like to find a way to
send the signal to the TV either wirelessly (easy) or over a wire which
I would have to pull. (harder but I did drop a conduit into the crawl
space for just such an eventuality) So far all the devices I've been
able to find are designed to send the signal from a TV/cable to the
computer for viewing or recording. I would have to go from the computer
to the AV receiver. The other bottleneck is the speed of connection. We
use the wireless g protocol but I do have a new n router. Maybe still
too slow? Also we are on DSL @ 256 theoretically with not much hope of
doing better even if we pay for it. I don't have to view in real time
and could simply add a hard drive for later viewing.
Is this practical? Other ideas?
Mike
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