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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Converter boxes are NOT going to be free]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</guid><description><![CDATA[That $89 item at radio shack was a closeout price.  I'd like you to show me where I can buy a set top box for under $100 these days.  The problem with every new TV requiring the ATSC tuner built in is that there doesn't seem to be much market for set top boxes.  <br><br>The other interesting feature is that anyone who is getting their TV from cable doesn't really care about NTSC being turned off over the air.  What are the statistics of how many people get their TV solely over the air?  I'm doing it now, but only since I picked up a Samsung SRT451 at overstock.com last year as an experiment at dropping my cable bill.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William C Bonner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 4th 2007 11:37AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Converter boxes are NOT going to be free]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</guid><description><![CDATA[Basic, no frills ATSC Tuners will be in $40 dollars price range. Remember there are alot of HD tvs with no hd tuner.    Samsung sells one for $160 now, but has virtually no competition.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[horngreen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 8th 2007 6:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Converter boxes are NOT going to be free]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</guid><description><![CDATA[My parents are looking at purchasing a new TV. They are fixed income and they will not pay for cable nor a cable box. They cannot afford a new HD/ED TV and it seems foolish to me for them to go and purchase a SD box at this juncture. Does anyone have any ideas?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[uncascrooge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 4th 2007 7:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Converter boxes are NOT going to be free]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</guid><description><![CDATA[All new TVs are required to have an ATSC tuner, even standard definition.  Just check that it is not an old one left in stock without the ATSC tuner.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[keith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 5th 2007 2:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Converter boxes are NOT going to be free]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</guid><description><![CDATA[The Constitution doesn't say squat about digital television receivers. For these government pigs to mandate an end to analog broadcasts is fascism. Oh, and that $1.5 billion the government "appropriated" is money stolen from the people who earned it. Even if they were subsidized, there's no way these boxes would be "free". ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Cazorp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 4th 2007 9:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Converter boxes are NOT going to be free]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</guid><description><![CDATA[The Radio Shack tuner was very slow as well.  There will also be demand from many earlier adopters of hdtv. Basic tuners bare bone tuners may eventually be in the $40 dollar range.  But if you want a nice desk top tuner with other features like QAM, and recording capability prices will scale up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[horngreen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 5th 2007 7:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Digital Converter boxes are NOT going to be free]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2007/02/04/digital-converter-boxes-are-not-going-to-be-free/</guid><description><![CDATA[The problem I've got is finding any set top boxes available.  If I wanted QAM, I'd just go to my cable company and buy a box.  I want to get ATSC over the air for free, and I want to be able to buy a set top box for less than it would cost me to go out and buy an entirely new tube TV.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William C Bonner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 6th 2007 12:38PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>