sorry, I didn't know their output was channel 3 or 4. apologies.
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tom Fowle wrote: > Mitch, > The best way to solve this problem is to get one of the digital converter > boxes available via the government cupons and from Radio shlock, Best buy > and other sources. > These have two ways of getting audio and video out of them: > 1. An R.F. connector like for T.V. cable.This can be set to > produce either chanel 3 or 4 analog signals. > > 2. three RCA phono plugs, audio (line out) left and right plus video. > > Simplest thing to do is hook the audio line out jacks into some amplifier > as in a stereo with aux inputs. > > This won't be battery powered and you'll need a T.V. antenna of some kind > depending on your signal strength and distance from transmitters. > > Now these boxes are only somewhat usefull to a bat. Thanks FCC and > capitalistic > industry who doesn't care. When set up, you need sighted help to make them > scan local signals and memorize them. Then you can usually manage to use > the remote that comes with the converter box to select chanels. As each > numbered chanel may have several sub chanels associated with it, means of > selecting these sub chanels vary from converter to converter. > > From what I've seen and heard there is no > particular converter box that is better for us than > any other. > > At least, if you can get the government cupons still, it will be pretty cheap > to get a converter, and presumably you have a convenient stereo or similar > with line inputs for the audio. > > It is possible you could run the converter's R.F. output to some > gimmicked up link to the antenna of your T.V. > band radio, but that's the hard way and unless you just don't > have an amplifier around, i wouldn't bother. > > Best we can do for now, again thanks to the ever vigilant FCC. who does > exactly what industry wants, not what is good for "us"! > > Hope that helps, ask if you want more clarification. > > There was a basic review of converter boxes in AFB's Access world a few isues > back. > > Luck > Tom Fowle > Embedded Systems Developer/ Rehab engineer > Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center > The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute > 2318 Fillmore St. > San Francisco, CA 94115 > 415-345-2123 (Voice) > [email protected] > > > >
