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I am wondering if people to use them? I am considering buying one for my old tv. During the time coupons were given, I was bed ridden to go out and get one.

Is it worth buying one or not? I hear rumors no more tv or might be limited channels but nothing as of now took place. Also, does the wiring need to go on the antenna on the roof of your home?
 
Wait - can you watch TV programs on your old tv right now? Do you subscribe to a cable or satellite TV service? If so, then you don't need a converter box.

Do you live near a large city? In our home outside of Washington, D.C., we watch tv with converter boxes for both our tvs (one TV is ancient by today's standards, the other is about 9 years old). We get D.C. and Baltimore stations just fine with the converter box and a huge, honkin' antenna up in the attic.

Many Home Owner Associations do not allow roof-top antennas (our doesn't) so if that is true for you, and you need an antenna, you will have to use either an attic installation or a set-top "rabbit ears" type. (Today's "rabbit ears" might be a round or rectangular shape, not necessarily the famous V-shaped "rabbit ears.")

At our beach house in N.C., we have to have cable or satellite to get anything at all, as we are not near any large city. We have cable.

So whether you need a set-top box or not depends on where you live, what sort of reception you are likely to get, whether you get or want cable or satellite reception, etc.
 
Yes, I had heard that U.S. cable and satellite TV providers lose 380,000 subscribers in 2nd quarter. Customers can't afford to pay too high price.
 
I agree. Ridiculous prices. If you can get over-the-air tv, and can live without HGTV and CNN and ESPN, then you can save well over $100 a month doing without cable.
 
You can contact cable company to change local channels as basic cable channels. This digital and HD channels is less than 24 and price is less than $20.
 
Right, but if you already get those basic channels OTA, and that is all you want, then there is no point at all in having cable.
 
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Beach girl said:
Wait - can you watch TV programs on your old tv right now? Do you subscribe to a cable or satellite TV service? If so, then you don't need a converter box.

Do you live near a large city? In our home outside of Washington, D.C., we watch tv with converter boxes for both our tvs (one TV is ancient by today's standards, the other is about 9 years old). We get D.C. and Baltimore stations just fine with the converter box and a huge, honkin' antenna up in the attic.

Many Home Owner Associations do not allow roof-top antennas (our doesn't) so if that is true for you, and you need an antenna, you will have to use either an attic installation or a set-top "rabbit ears" type. (Today's "rabbit ears" might be a round or rectangular shape, not necessarily the famous V-shaped "rabbit ears.")

At our beach house in N.C., we have to have cable or satellite to get anything at all, as we are not near any large city. We have cable.

So whether you need a set-top box or not depends on where you live, what sort of reception you are likely to get, whether you get or want cable or satellite reception, etc.
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I don't watch tv, it doesn't have a converter box nor cable. I wasn't sure if they still exist with all the technology advancing and many people switching to cable.
 
If you don't watch TV, why do you need a converter box?
 
Pro'lly to watch Patriots games. :lol:

(Which is a perfectly justifiable reason, to my New England-lovin' heart.)
 
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Beach girl said:
Pro'lly to watch Patriots games. :lol:

(Which is a perfectly justifiable reason, to my New England-lovin' heart.)
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You got that right Beach girl :D
 
If you want to know what happen in the world, there called newspaper or news online.

If you want to know sport, see the first line.

If you want an entertrainment, go to hulu.com or netflix.com to pay unlimited access with subtitle. They cost less than 10 bucks or so.
 
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PowerON said:
If you want to know what happen in the world, there called newspaper or news online.

If you want to know sport, see the first line.

If you want an entertrainment, go to hulu.com or netflix.com to pay unlimited access with subtitle. They cost less than 10 bucks or so.
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Yes, not all online sport resources show the NFL games live.
 
Far as I know, you can't watch live sports on hulu, can you? For a die-hard Red Sox or Patriots game, reading the report the day after is just not the same thing.

Maybe this should go in "Confessions:" When there is a Red Sox game on that is not televised, I watch the simulation of the game on mlb.com, on "gameday." Poor imitation of the real thing, but better than nothing. I would have subscribed if mlb.com had carried subtitles or captions, but it does not.
 
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