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My Recent Experience with Digital Television

Everyone should be very aware that mid next month the US is going to basically turn off the airwaves we have for all current TV broadcasts, and turn on something new called Digital TV,
and since I have a HD TV from 2004, I should be good to go.. I didn't worry..

Then I read that Digital Signals were already being broadcast, and that all I needed to do was configure my over the air TV to now read from the Digital Signals..(sounds simple) except my Samsung Bigscreen did not appear to have anything called DTV turner.. or anything like that .. It has the ability to connect to hdmi and component cables, DVI cables, PC Cables.. All digital signals, but no over the air digital turner.
Shit, fuck, damm.. So I call Samsung.. to confirm what I was seeing.. my 4 year old TV, was not going to work ! more shit fuck damm.. ..

Ya, according to Samsung consumer 800 number call in service.. it appears my TV wont be able to get these new digital signals over the air... So I ask, What is their soltuion ? and they didnt have one.. other than to say that companies out there are selling converter boxs, but they no nothing about these converter box's .
Happens to be that I know.. about them, they are digital to anaolog box's meaing that this new digital signal, which many of the stations are in nice HI DEF will be downconverted to standard old anaolog signals to be viewed on my HiDef Screen.

So the government is giving everyone the ability to get a free converter box so their older tv's can view the new digital TV Signal in the old crappy way they used to.. But me.. with a nice HD TV, I am just out of luck.

Back to the web.. more research, and after quite a bit of searching I find this.
Samsung DTBH260F HDTV Terrestrial Receiver. Which turns out to the only fix out there for my needs.
It is a digital TV turner which pumps out hdmi, and or component HD Signals, so people like myself who have a slightly older HD big screen can in fact use it with this new hd/ Digital broadcast.

What I found so funny about this, was to start I called samsung tech support, and they couldnt offer me a soltuion... but they had it right there..
Right hand doesnt know what the left hand is doing I guess.

Hope everyone had a good new year, and lets not let these economic new get us down.


Bob Lee

posted by Bob Lee @ 4:11 PM