Wayne Tiffany wrote:

The time has come here in the midwest USA for me to finally get with the
program and decide on a converter before my "gift" card expires. A quick
search of Best Buy web site brings up three: Apex for $50, Insignia for $60,
and Samsung for $180.

Are there opinions out there as to reasons to pick one of these, or
something else not found here, or whatever? Any reason not to grab the
cheap one? I know Apex isn't a high quality brand, but is Insignia any
better than Apex? I'm not spending $180 on a converter - not worth it to
me.

The Samsung unit is *NOT* a converter, but is a full-function HDTV receiver.
It has digital outputs - including HDMI - and is meant for delivering SD and
HD digital signals to a digital monitor that is lacking a tuner. This unit
should *NOT* be presented along with the digital-analog converters.