digital converter box -- surprising performance

[Brian Vita]

Check out this article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2008-06-12-cable-digital_N.htm?csp=tech

All-digital cable move may spark viewer ire

Excerpted->Cable companies are eager to sweep away analog channels to make
room for digital high-definition and interactive services. And Comcast ...
is about to lead that charge with the industry's most ambitious — and
potentially riskiest — effort yet to change the way cable subscribers watch
TV. <-


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> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org 
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org]
>  On Behalf Of George Allen
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 3:21 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: digital converter box -- surprising performance
> 
> I just fired up dtv box #2, a channel master cm-7000 [~$80 
> before coupon, s-video out], on wabbit ears on the 2nd floor 
> of my house in Swampscott, facing the ocean, SSW.  Blue Hill 
> [I've got hazecams up there too <g>] is "in the way" of 
> Providence, but 22 miles away.  Again, for what this antenna 
> sees, goto www.hazecam.net/boston.html .
> 
> With the wabbit ears just tossed behind the TV and no 
> fussing, this box pulled in a whole bunch of channels I'd 
> never seen before, including the 2 main Providence ones 
> [analog 10 and 12], perfectly.  I suppose this isn't that 
> surprising given the clear shot over the water from here. No 
> NH stations [that I recognized at least] tho.  There's a hill 
> right next to me to the North, and a few walls too.
>    -- George
> ____________________________________
> 
> Kevin Wrote:
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:02:18 -0500
> Subject: Re: digital converter box -- surprising performance 
> Just curious.  You people with rabbit ears in Greater Boston 
> how is the DTV signals out of Providence and New Hampshire doing?
> The VHF signals of 10 and 12 traditionally had problems in 
> Boston because of Great Blue Hill.
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