On Oct 13, 2008, at 12:06 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Anyone buy one yet? Do they get decent signals? Am looking at a list of converters, but don't know which to choose. We live 25-50 miles from broadcast towers and have 2 analog TVs.
I have had two of the Zenith DTT900 units for some time now, and they work quite well and are highly regarded in various ratings of converter boxes. I get all signals better in digital than I got them in analog, including those from over thirty miles away. My units do not have analog pass-through, and I probably would not use it anyway since the digital signals for whatever reason are better than analog at my location. I do have a very good external antenna, but even with a set-top antenna my digital reception beats analog.
There are reception issues that will probably not go away, such as momentary interruptions to the picture display primarily caused by out- of-phase signal reflections created by passing aircraft and trucks and cars, but those were present in analog as well along with "snow." Overall, the digital experience has suited me better than the analog I had gotten used to over many years, even with the occasional signal glitches previously mentioned.
Digital reception does have a lot to do with the quality and sensitivity of the receiver itself, and the DTT-900, using LG components, rates very highly in sensitivity as well as image quality. The Zenith units do not display as complete a programming schedule as some others do, but I would not trade away quality of reception for a more extensive program guide.
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