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I use the Samsung DTB-H260F. Got it at dell. It works well and the picture is good, but sometimes it takes a few tries to turn it off. Sometimes it crashes, but that is only if you leave it on for days at a time.
This one doesn't qualify for the govment program, but it's definitely worth it to have component/hdmi out.
I have the DTB-H260F as well. Got it at Circuit City a few years ago. I absolutely love it but paid something like $180 at the time. If someone is to start paying that kind of money I'd say they just go a bit further and invest in an HDTV.
As for the converter boxes for the budget minded; the DTVPal works well enough for my neighbor (or so he tells me). Doesn't have buttons on it so he's got an extra remote to keep tabs on but he swears by it. He got one of the few $40 ("free") units so he wouldn't complain no matter what though, I'm sure.
Definitely the Samsung, but I know that's probably outside the realm of what this was intended. I've had one for quite a while that I got for $75 open box, with all the cables and manual and remote missing from Circuit City (after running home to make sure my Harmony remote would work, and downloading the PDF manual, and it didn't include the cables I needed anyway).
After that, I'd suggest the Zenith. Both my parents and grandma use them, and they seem to have really good reception and image quality out over RF.