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Default Question About TV Converter Boxes

Windswept@Home (Jack) wrote in :

Still waiting for my guvamint coupons, as well as a new TV antenna
later today, but in the meantime .... I assume that if I want to
program & record a show, the converter box should be attached to the
VCR for recording, and if I want to watch a program thru the TV itself
rather than watching thru the VCR, the converter should be attached to
the TV. Is that your understanding?


you can feed the converter into the VCR and the VCR output into your TV.
Then you can record a program,but you can't watch a different channel on
the TV. If you want to record one channel while watching another,you need
TWO converter boxes,one for the VCR and one for the TV.

AND,AFAIK,no converter now on the market can be programmed to turn on and
tune to a programmed channel;they have to be set up and left ON until the
program is over. The Echostar TR-40 is alleged to have programmability,but
it will not be for sale until June or July.

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