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With all the small, cheap LCD HDTV monitors out there, this is the perfect compliment. Why isn't Radio Shack advertising this thing all over NFL football?

Seriously, for those that just don't know, just hooking this bad boy up to the S video input of your normal, analog, non-HDTV tv will improve your reception 500%. If you have crappy cable, you will not beleive how much better a digital ASTC signal is.

I've got the Zenith 32V37 HDTV with the built in tuner, and an antenna, but if I didn't I would seriously get this thing and use it with a regular TV.]]>Oct 3rd 2005 9:43PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/09/18/the-key-to-high-definition-domination/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/09/18/the-key-to-high-definition-domination/
Also, $50 for a "good" HDMI cable is too high. $250 for a Monster brand uranium coated HDMI cable is totally a scam. HDMI is a digital signal, like the optical or coax digital audio output on your DVD player. A google search will turn up 2m HDMI cables starting around $15. These cheap cables transmit the identical signal as the $250 unobtanium-clad ripoffs. Not almost the same, EXACTLY the same, thanks to the power of 1s and 0s. Look at it like this -- you don't get more (or less) typos and misspellings in my post if you have a more expensive computer. Thanks to digital transmission you get it just like I typed it, exactly, on the cheapest computer which is capable of accessing it that is not defective in some way. Same deal.

Ironically, this ATSC tuner may be cheaper than any of the HDMI cables Radio Shack sells.]]>Sep 19th 2005 4:38PM