I have set up several converter boxes for myself, my office and my Mom. In every case the process was very quick, about 5 minutes. Maybe another 5 minutes to get the converter box's remote to control basic functions for the TV.
What took time ws playing with the antenna. Antennaweb was a big help because it showed me the direction to the station's broadcast antennas. The good news in DC is that they are almost all located on the hill top at Wisconsin and Brandywine. But as I said before, pointing the antenna was not a logical process. I did whatever the box's signal meter indicated was the strongest signal. So once I got a good signal from that collection of stations the job was done and I had my box rescan. In the end I did lose some stations, but for the stations I did get, most had multiple subchannels. E.g. WETA has 4 channels (unfortunately 1 & 4 seem to be the same program most of the time, I hope they improve that). So despite losing some channels I have more subchannels so more programming choices in total. I stopped worrying about the stations I lost. Channels 101-200 is a cable thing. I don't know anything about cable. BTW, this is not OT. Digital broadcast is definitely about computers. >Thanks, Tom! Progress so far: WETA comes in fine. But lots of other >channels that we previously received do not come in at all. & so far >as channels 101 through 200 go, most don't come through, and the ones >that do are mostly "pixelated." The next thing we have to do is check >the signal to the house to be sure that's not the problem. Then the >various connections within the house. Then we may just decide to ditch >Comcast completely and start over with something else. Very, very time >consuming, and very frustrating too. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
