AccessHD DTV decoder report

You can't get basic cable TV in your area?

...Jim Thompson

The guy is helping out folks that are out there looking at what the best decoder in the channel is, dumbass.

Do you always only apply two neurons to anything you read here, or is that all you have available that haven't turned into "leftist weenie hating" retarded bent brained neurons?

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Why should I pay for TV? cable is a rip-off.

Sounds like your "free" over-the-air is poor quality.

IIRC _basic_ is pretty cheap, and high quality. (I personally get the whole enchilada so I can watch movies and The Tudors ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Oh yeah... there is that reason as well!

And think green... takes less power to distribute cable, than over-the-air ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Idiot. If the channel is there, it is ALL there. at just as good a signal stream as cable feeds (has to be it, is the same data). Cable boxes ain't all that great quality either, dope.

Basic starts at around $35 here, so most states likely have it well over $20 a month. Do you ever get anything right? Oh yeah... what is good about basic service? The set top decoder is half the time pretty poor quality, but I wouldn't expect you to use HDMI or an optical feed to your stereo from the cable box, like I do. Still, the cable twits don't do cable boxes all that well either, dumbass.

At reduced resolution, whether you choose to believe it or not.

I'll take disc based HD any day over the CRAP that satellite and cable issues. Mainly because I CAN see and hear the difference, old man.

NOT!

You have to add all head end power needs, line extenders, main amps, set-top boxes. Cable costs more watts per 'user' than a single transmitter does.

Have you tried the Zenith works well for us.

Cheers

Free over the air is all digital soon, and they are not compressed to narrow the bandwidth, nor given to you in a converted to analog mode. What I need is an Atsc tuner for my 1080 HD computer monitor it only has an analog tuner built in.

Bob

It has a DVI input, all that needs is a different cable.

Bob

Basic cable, at least in my neighborhood, is analog NTSC. The ATSC broadcasts are much higher quality. Higher in many cases than the digital cable's HD programs.

Like this?

It'll work as long as your monitor has an HDMI input.

In Phoenix, Cox Communications distributes both NTSC and digital for those local stations already functioning in digital mode... just different channel numbers, 5 -> 705, 8 -> 708, etc.

A quick peek: ALL local Phoenix stations are running digital.

...Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I get good quality with my other DTV decoder,same antenna/location.

"basic" cable is IIRC,$40 a month.

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@hovnanian.com:

plus I now get all those subchannels. I also get Daytona PBS (WDSC)that I couldn't get with analog OTA-NTSC.

"Martin Riddle" wrote in news:%1bEl.351$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

I've already used both my coupons. Magnavox TB100MW9,and now the Access HD

It already is.

That is not what you need. You needed a brain back when you made the choice to purchase that POS. HDMI to DVI adapters are out there. Hook it up the same way you do from the PC.

Sell or trade them at the swap meet to someone for a coupon.