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OK I have my coupons, now which box should I buy. I see many choices. Any recomendations to buy or not buy?
 
First decide whether you need to pass thru the existing analog signal. If you need that option then it narrows the list of available converters considerably. The list of converters that are able to pass the analog signal is provided in the information which is sent with the $40 assistance cards. I happened to not need analog pass trhough so I went with the Digital Stream from RS. I first bought one to see how well it worked and later bought a second after I was pleased with the operation of the first. The Digital Stream received good reviews from the converter forum sites I was able to find on the web. It might be wise to select a converter which allows the user to purchase additional remotes.
 
I bought mine from best buy, they work well with one exception, they will not allow the analog signal to pass through when the box is turned off. This will not be a problem after next february when all signals will be digital, but right now we have both analog and digital signals to switch between.
I got around that by installing $10 worth of A B switches in the antenna line so I can switch the converter box out of the line for watching analog signals.
I see some of the high end converter boxes have the analog pass through feature. Something to look for if it is important to you.
 
Borrowed a Magnavox for experimentation. Worked OK. Fed it to TV through composite video cables. That way, I could use TV for analog broadcast as usual, and switch inputs to watch converteed digital. On a side note, even with good antennas, with several choices for broadcast analog signals, there were only three stations broadcasting in digital. Two were PBS. Only genuine broadcast station was marginal, with lots of gaps in picture, and audio. (That station is rock solid on analog.) NOT IMPRESSED! Hope things improve before February. Think this may be the Govt. way of pushing us all to dishes, or cable (not available here.)
 
I got the magnavox from Wally world. $48.89.
since all the analog shosw in my area are on digital plus about 8 more channels I did not need the passthtru.
 
Wife picked up a couple of boxes (non pass-thru) and I hooked one up last night. No digital channels found. We live in rural MN and get one solid station, and about 3 others with spotty but watchable reception. Its gonna be great when they pull the plug on the analog transmission. Makes me want to round up all my tvs and dump them in my legislators lap.
 
Just thinking can these boxes be used to run more than one TV at the same time. I have one lead in from the ant. I also have a signal booster, and then split off to the other tv"s in the house. Will one box work at the splitter location to run all sets.
 
I have the coupons but every store i have been in is allways out of the boxes. it looks like my coupons will expire before i fine one.
 
I bought a Venturer from Target and an RCA from WalMart. I like the RCA much better - it has a nicer remote, programming info (what's on, what's next). Doesn't allow manual adding of channels, but I don't know how important that is. The Venturer lets you add channels manually, but has no programming info. The later RCA models ending in B1 (on the barcode tag) have analog passthrough.
 
I got two RCA converters and a Magnavox with analog pass through. I like the Magnavox because it has a signal strength meter to adjust the antenna.
 
Have my coupons but not yet checked into the boxes. The thing that is being said about no analog TV after that date is wrong tho. There will still be TV stations broadcasting in analog, just not the high power stations, they are the only one's that have to stop with analog. There are 3 stations on different networks owned by the same family in my area and they are what they call the low power meaning they do not have to change, they are keeping the analog as long as the equipment will last but they have also gotten the digital setup. I am on Watch TV at the house so it will not afffect me there but for the camper I want a box with pass thru as when you are out of normal area you do not know what stations are out there and the onlw way to find out is to channel surf. The camper antenna is new in 2005 so it should be good for the digital signal.
 
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