OTA HDTV

Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store
that carries a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack,
or sears in my area (Eastern MA).

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company as
the only source of tuners.

In RickMerrill
wrote:

Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store
that carries a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack,
or sears in my area (Eastern MA).

But I'll bet if you look real, real hard, you might find one or two
complete HD TVs with ATSC tuners.

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company
as the only source of tuners.

What possible relation between OTA HD and cable tuners is there?

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

RickMerrill wrote:
Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store
that carries a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack,
or sears in my area (Eastern MA).

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company as
the only source of tuners.

Most stores stopped selling separate ATSC HD tuners because all HDTV
have one built-in. You can still but the online and from mail order
outfits (I just got a catalog from MCM Electronics that has one).

And don't say that the cable companies had anything to do with it
because it just isn't true.
--
Bill R.


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"RickMerrill" wrote in message
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Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store
that carries a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack,
or sears in my area (Eastern MA).

All of the above mentioned stores actually sell the ATSC tuners bundled with
ALL of their new televisions. They are actually built right in...imagine
that! If you can find a new television that doesn't come with an ATSC tuner
then it's a computer monitor.

RickMerrill wrote:

Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store
that carries a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack,
or sears in my area (Eastern MA).

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company as
the only source of tuners.

Most TVs already have an OTA HDTV (ATSC) tuner included. If not, just
buy online:

http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...b _prd_id=210
[ http://tinyurl.com/b4pd5a ]

http://www.consumerdepot.com/product...referer=google
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JV6TQY
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...ial_Tuner.html

etc.

Does your HDTV not have a tuner?

On Feb 3, 1:50*pm, RickMerrill wrote:
Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store
that carries a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack,
or sears in my area (Eastern MA).

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company as
the only source of tuners.

You need to look on-line. They are a quite common add-on for PCs.
All devices with a TV tuners now have an ATSC tuner. Apparently,
there just isn't much of a market for a standalone ATSC tuner with an
HD output. The newest Samsung tuner was still available the last time
I looked on line. I think www.solidsignal.com had a couple of other
models for sale.

Dan (Woj...)

RickMerrill wrote:

Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store
that carries a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack,
or sears in my area (Eastern MA).

WalMart is not the place to go when you're looking for specialized
electronics. Neither is Sears. Circuit City is in its death throes. Radio
Shack is completely hopeless.

In fact, anytime I'm looking for a specific something, I can't find it in any
local store.

Buy it online. There are lots of ATSC HD tuners out there.


--
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:50:23 -0500, RickMerrill wrote:

Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store that carries
a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack, or sears in my area
(Eastern MA).

Every TV sold in the US has had to have an ATSC tuner built in for a year
or two now. If you are looking for an external ATSC HD STB, then you may
have to buy it on-line, as local stores probably see no need to carry
them any longer since the tuner is built into the TV.

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company as
the only source of tuners.

And all those TV's have ATSC tuners built in, unless it's very old stock.
If you're looking for a converter box, then they are still available most
everywhere.

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Wes Newell wrote:
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:50:23 -0500, RickMerrill wrote:

Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store that carries
a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack, or sears in my area
(Eastern MA).

Every TV sold in the US has had to have an ATSC tuner built in for a year
or two now. If you are looking for an external ATSC HD STB, then you may
have to buy it on-line, as local stores probably see no need to carry
them any longer since the tuner is built into the TV.

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company as
the only source of tuners.

And all those TV's have ATSC tuners built in,
....

Not one of them bore that notation. What else would they call it, hdtv?
I didn't check the behinds of them all but I didn't see an antenna
hookup. Sone had as many as 4 HDMI inputs.

RickMerrill wrote:
Wes Newell wrote:
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:50:23 -0500, RickMerrill wrote:

Over the air HDTV (ATSC) is dead - you cannot find a store that carries
a tuner at walmart(2), circuit city, radioshack, or sears in my area
(Eastern MA).

Every TV sold in the US has had to have an ATSC tuner built in for a
year or two now. If you are looking for an external ATSC HD STB, then
you may have to buy it on-line, as local stores probably see no need
to carry them any longer since the tuner is built into the TV.

Apparently a certain local cable company has locked up the deals with
the stores to sell only TVs, leaving the certain local cable company as
the only source of tuners.

And all those TV's have ATSC tuners built in,
...

Not one of them bore that notation. What else would they call it, hdtv?
I didn't check the behinds of them all but I didn't see an antenna
hookup. Sone had as many as 4 HDMI inputs.


They all have to have receivers by law if they are not computer monitors.

Bob Miller