Go for the converter box. TV prices will continue to come down. If you decide you need a bigger TV or the space savings later you only have 20$ + coupon invested.
That's idiotic advice, because it presumes that later he'd want to trade up to a bigger analog-only TV and would still need a converter box to use it.
But analog-only TVs are almost always cathode ray tubes, which are big, bulky, and much less reliable. Years from now only a few will be available, and even fewer will be worth the effort of obtaining and setting up, other than for retro-tech hobbyists.
Much more likely that he'd want to trade up to a larger, LIGHTER, flat-panel digital TV. And thus have no need of the converter box.
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Go for the converter box. TV prices will continue to come down. If you decide you need a bigger TV or the space savings later you only have 20$ + coupon invested.
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That's idiotic advice, because it presumes that later he'd want to trade up to a bigger analog-only TV and would still need a converter box to use it.
But analog-only TVs are almost always cathode ray tubes, which are big, bulky, and much less reliable. Years from now only a few will be available, and even fewer will be worth the effort of obtaining and setting up, other than for retro-tech hobbyists.
Much more likely that he'd want to trade up to a larger, LIGHTER, flat-panel digital TV. And thus have no need of the converter box.