"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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On 11/4/2008 10:18 AM Mike spake thus:

On Oct 31, 3:57 pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
Just used my gubmint'-issued $40 credit and bought the box (at a local
Circuit City). Got the only one they had, the Zenith DTT901. Now I'm
wondering whether I should have shopped around first.

Not big deals, since I don't really care that much about TV anyhow. I'd
be curious to hear similar reports on other converter boxes.

How about the blue light on it? That thing will light up a dark room,
or it seems that way when I wake up in the middle of the night.

I take it you never turn yours off.

Yeah, that power indicator light is weird. Blue when on, red when off,
both garish and bright. Who designed that? For my money, I'd rather see
*no* light when it's off.


--
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

- Paulo Freire

When it's off, it's in "analog passthrough", so they probably intended it as
blue for digital, red for analog. Of course in our area, there's only one
low power, non-digital station that we can get anyway, and we didn't watch
it before we had the converter box, so I pretty much don't use the analog
passthrough much.