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 RCA ANT1450B Digital Home Theater Antenna Black  US $24.95
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Zinwell ZAT-970A Digital to Analog TV Converter Box (for Antenna Use) List Price: $49.99 Sale Price: Too low to display Used From: $33.99  |
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The ZAT-970A ATSC Digital to Analog Converter from Zinwell is a digital to analog converter that supports analog pass through. It converts digital TV signals to analog and offers several convenient features including multilingual support digital parental control and an IR wireless remote control for making volume and channel adjustments from a comfortable distance... |
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Magnavox DTV Digital to Analog Converter List Price: $49.99 Sale Price: $32.95 Used From: $27.99 |
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Hd Hdtv Dtv Digital to Analog Converter Box and Flat Digital Indoor Tv Antenna Combo Package Sale Price: $79.99 |
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This is a HD HDTV DTV Digital to Analog converter box and flat design high gain antenna package that includes: One Supersonic iKonvert DIGITAL DTV CONVERTER BOX Model # SC-55. One FLAT design Digital HDTV/VHF/UHF/DTV High gain indoor Color TV Antenna Model ANT5 If you are struggling to get HDTV channels, this combo package will help you... |
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Hd Hdtv Dtv Digital to Analog Converter Box and Amplified Digital Outdoor Tv Antenna Combo Package Sale Price: $69.99 |
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This is a HD HDTV DTV Digital to Analog converter box and high gain Amplified outdoor HD antenna package that includes: One Supersonic iKonvert DIGITAL DTV CONVERTER BOX Model # SC-55. One Digital HDTV/VHF/UHF/DTV High gain Remote controlled Rotating Outdoor Color TV Antenna... |
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Paper Thin Leaf Indoor HDTV Antenna - Made in the USA! List Price: $49.99 Sale Price: Too low to display Used From: $30.95 |
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The patent pending Leaf indoor television antenna is a paper thin antenna that connects to your TV and mounts on the wall, behind a picture, or just about anywhere to enable you to receive free over-the-air broadcasts... |
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Apex DT250A Digital Converter Box with Analog Passthrough List Price: $49.99 Sale Price: $24.99 Used From: $24.98 |
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Philips SDV2740/27 HDTV/UHF/VHF/FM Digital Indoor TV Antenna List Price: $49.99 Sale Price: $22.73 Used From: $20.00 |
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The SDV2740 amplified indoor antenna is designed to provide reception of both analog and digital broadcasts. The reception elements are optimized for digital broadcasts and ensure better reception of ATSC/HDTV signals over a conventional loop antenna... |
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RCA ANT1450BM Refurbished Multi-Directional Digital Flat Amplified HDTV Antenna (Black) List Price: $36.00 Sale Price: $13.60 Used From: $12.15 |
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RCA digital flat amplified home theater antenna is multi-directional and receives free uncompressed digital signals. Broadcast digital TV gives you more free channels, easy to use effective parental controls and enhanced services such as ditigal closed-captioning... |
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Digital Stream Analog Pass-through DTV Converter Box Sale Price: $44.95 Used From: $29.48 |
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Convert over-the-air digital signals so you can see them on your analog TV with this Digital-to-Analog Converter Box. Make the transition from analog to digital broadcasting with ease. The analog pass-through feature ensures that you will be able to receive signals from both analog and digital stations... |
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Access HD DTA1080D NTIA-Approved Digital to Analog TV Converter Box List Price: $59.99 Sale Price: $30.49 Used From: $21.00 |
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Digital-analog converter box enables analog TVs and digital ready TVs to receive free, off-air UHF and VHF eigital images. |
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Do You Need HDTV Now, Or Should You Wait?
As with so many questions in life the answer to whether you neeed to buy a HDTV now or wait longer, is that it depends. It depends on your own viewing habits and how much television you like to watch. It also depends on how much you can afford to spend.
Currently, you can view pretty much all television programming with analog TV sets, but the FCC has made it necessary for all television broadcasting companies to switch over to being able to send their TV signals in HDTV format by 2007, and that is not very far away. The problem is that analog TVs cannot receive and display HDTV or digital TV signals. So when the time arrives that all programming is being sent in digital format, what is going to happen to your old, reliable analog TV?
Well, there are conversion boxes that can be bought for between $50 - $100 that will convert the digital signal to a format that an analog TV can display. Of course, the picture and sound will not be anywhere near the quality of even normal digital TV, much less HDTV. But at least you will still be able to view TV as you always have on your analog televison set.
So back to the question at hand, should you go ahead and buy a new HDTV soon, or just go along with your old analog one for a while? Well, keep in mind that a new HDTV will cost several hundred to a few thousand dollars to buy. If you simply can't afford that expense at this point, then maybe keeping your current TV and getting the digital to analog converter is your best bet. Or maybe you just aren't that much of a TV viewer anyway, so when you do watch, having enhanced picture and sound is just not all that important to you. Then once again, maybe you should just get the converter box and stay with what you have.
On the other hand, there is no good reason to keep waiting much longer to buy HDTV as the prices have already fallen quite a bit. They undoubtedly will fall further, but not all that much. And there is no advanced technology available after HDTV that is on the horizon that you should be holding out for either. So for those folks who can afford buying a new HDTV television, there is no time like the present.
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