EdHoch
Stunt Coordinator
Greetings All,
With the coming conversion to Digital broadcast, my family is considering making some significant changes in our TV viewing habits. However, I have no idea if our plan is even feasible, so I thought I throw it out here and see what you all thought.
We have two TVs in our household, one is a 46" Widescreen Mits that is HD ready. The other is an 36" standard Mits circa 1991 that probably needs a converter box.
We currently subscribe to DirecTV.
Here's the plan:
Obtain converter for old TV
Buy HD antenna to obtain local broadcast channels (How much do those cost, as is there a way to test for what channels I can get in my location before buying the thing and putting it on the roof?)
Drop DTV
Use some of money saved on DTV to join Netflix and use that to augment our meager channel choices...get caught up on all those shows I never watched when they were originially broadcast (24, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity etc)
What I will miss the most about DTV (aside from the Daily Show and the NBA on TNT) is the DVR functionality. With only a few channels, I won't need 100GB of disc space, but will any of these Digital converter boxes have DVR funtionality (recording, pause live TV) or are those versions still prohibitively expensive?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
With the coming conversion to Digital broadcast, my family is considering making some significant changes in our TV viewing habits. However, I have no idea if our plan is even feasible, so I thought I throw it out here and see what you all thought.
We have two TVs in our household, one is a 46" Widescreen Mits that is HD ready. The other is an 36" standard Mits circa 1991 that probably needs a converter box.
We currently subscribe to DirecTV.
Here's the plan:
Obtain converter for old TV
Buy HD antenna to obtain local broadcast channels (How much do those cost, as is there a way to test for what channels I can get in my location before buying the thing and putting it on the roof?)
Drop DTV
Use some of money saved on DTV to join Netflix and use that to augment our meager channel choices...get caught up on all those shows I never watched when they were originially broadcast (24, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity etc)
What I will miss the most about DTV (aside from the Daily Show and the NBA on TNT) is the DVR functionality. With only a few channels, I won't need 100GB of disc space, but will any of these Digital converter boxes have DVR funtionality (recording, pause live TV) or are those versions still prohibitively expensive?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!