On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:49 AM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > We did find out something to improve the over the air signal--a cheap $29 > DVD recorder with an amazing tuner from Big Lots. Better than the two > converter boxes we tried, plus DVD! With a cheap home-made antenna, > http://www.tvantennaplans.com/, pictures are good to very good, around 20 > stations, maybe more--and remember, we live even more "nowhere" than you do > in NJ. Good luck with WYBE [ch.35?]. Somehow it only comes in when the > Korean programs are on, then it disappears.
It was a long and arduous search that I had to undertake in order to find a digital TV that had a highly sensitive tuner. I rely upon over-the-air TV, and there is virtually no information whatsoever from any TV maker regarding tuner specifications. I really do not know how a consumer can differentiate one tuner from another in a technical sense since there does not appear to be any standards that are set for TV tuners. One can evaluate FM radio tuners by way of various accepted measurements, but that is not the case with TV tuners. The only way I could find a TV that met my expectations out here in the boonies was to read reviews. Indeed, the TV I finally bought was the one and only one in which any reviewer that I read even mentioned the tuner section. In two such reviews, the reviewers simply stated that the tuner in that particular TV clearly outperformed all the others they had tested. Such a statement tells me that tuners in most TVs are but a legally required afterthought these days, and tuner performance is regarded by most makers as a superfluous bother given the popularity and widespread use of cable and satellite reception both of which bypass the built-in tuner. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
