...and the critique is mixed. We've never had cable in our house because we are too poor. (and well, it gives us a good excuse to visit our parents. Right Dad?) So we've always been at the mercy of our aluminum foil covered antenna for a peek into the outside world. On a good day we can get about 3 channels with some fuzz, but most of the time it is just 1 channel that tolerable enough to watch without getting a headache.
We were so excited to get our converter box. All the commercials rave about the quality of digital signals, blah, blah, blah. But what they DON'T tell you is that your signal is only as strong as your antenna. Hey, I'm no techie so it's perfectly okay that I believed all our problems would be solved with the little box prophesied to save the end of the world (2-17-09, that is). We were pretty deflated when we plugged in our fancy-shmancy box and had to strategically place our antenna to get signal. I don't know, maybe our expectations were unrealistic. But you have to admit that the commercials make it sound like the little box is some mystical wonder.
All of this is taken with a grain of salt though. After some adjusting of the antenna, we do get 7 channels now! And it is nice not to have to squint through the fuzz to watch Scrubs!
Our other biggest complaint about the box is that it takes foreeeeever to change channels. That is because it has to find the analog signal, and then convert it. I hope this goes away after the apocalypse. (2-17-09, that is)
We are waiting to cash in our other coupon to see if we like this brand of converter box. Brand-name probably doesn't matter much in this matter though. Besides that, we only have 1 antenna for our 2 TVs. We (did) move the antenna to whichever room we wanted to watch TV in.
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