I subscribe to cable. Only one of the TVs in the house is connected to a cable box. I currently do not subscribe to digital service. The other TVs are directly connected to the cable without any boxes.
Given this scenario, will I need to get any DTV boxes? Armando, If your reception is coming through cable, you should not need a converter box regardless of whether you subscribe to their digital service or not. Gabe, You should be able to watch all the channels broadcast over the air that have a strong enough signal for your antenna, including channels over Go to AntennaWeb and fill out the address form to find out the channels you will be able to receive and how strong the signal to them will be.
Channels listed in red should come in fine with rabbit ears, others may require a rooftop mounted antenna. Ben, I sent away for the coupons for the digital boxes last year. However as you probably know they have an expiration date on them, and I was unable to afford them before the coupons expired.
I have appealed this with the program website and I have not heard one word! It has benn 6 montha ago. Do you know of any place to that can help me with this. Thank you for any help. Thank you Portia Knight. Hi Portia, A provision in the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of allows those whose coupons have expired to apply for a replacement on a first come, first serve basis.
You can also apply for a coupon by phone at , or mail your application to P. Box , Portland, OR I live on ssi n cant afford to get a digital box n i cant afford cable so can i still get the box for free or a coupon. Now, new coupons will be sent via first class, rather than bulk mail rates, and should arrive within nine days of requesting them. According to a spokesman with the agency, the no-replacement-after-expiration rule was not of its own doing, but rather an interpretation of the original bill passed by Congress, which stipulated that no more than two coupons should be sent to any one household.
The recent act that changed the analog cutoff date from February to June changed the wording to read that no more than two coupons per household could be redeemed.
I ordered a certificate this afternoon. The site, and my printed confirmation state that the certificate will be issued April That is 16 days by my calculations. Is anyone actually going to make a converter box with DVR, for recording, like some were talking about? Why we have to pay for this at all, as they are our airwaves? The myth that it is just a few dollars is just that. Once again, the consumer has borne the burden of paying for something we already own.
Because with the buying power of the U. And Radio Shack and CVS and all those other stores on the list could still have made money on the deal because the government could have used them for the distribution, paying them a nominal handling fee and those companies would still love it because it would generate all that extra traffic through the stores.
Excellent way to waste our tax dollars. Particularly older people. When TV signals were first broadcast, nobody whined about having to shell out money for a TV, just like nobody whined about buying a radio before that. This whole thing has been stupid from the outset. Who decided that coupons expire in 90 days, anyway?? When I got mine last year, no store my SoCal area had anything to buy.
I had to do some online research to find a mail-order outfit which had some good units in stock. With an antenna splitter, did a shootout on KCET, channel Weak signal and a little snow, DTV is perfect. More snow and suddenly DTV goes bonkers, with ribbons of color and stuttering sound. They call this the digital cliff, its all or nothing. What were you doing in January when the analog shut down was scheduled for Feb 19? Take some responsibility! I am looking forward to the DVR built into my TV monitor so I can record anything from any source at the place it matters most…where I can see it.
Regarding the cost of the airwaves, you make a good point. Considering the multi trillion bank sector meltdown, that now seems quaint, but it is what it is. At least a billion has been used to subsidize the coupon program. And you have to buy a TV to watch. Now that we can get a great quality picture over-the-air for FREE, many people struggling to make ends meet can cancel cable.
It seems like pretty great value to me. Of course with the digital converter comes another remote — one you must use to change the channel once your television receives its signal through this converter box.
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