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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Humbled Survivor wrote:

My cable tv company switched the signal to HDTV, so naturally my tube TV
doesn't pick up the signal. All I get is fuzz.

I have found not one converter that switches HDTV back down to analog. All
the ones on the market are for antennas only. They try to dupe you that it
converts a coaxial cable HDTV signal from the cable company to analog, but
none of them do that.

It's like taking an upgrade from the past and downgrading it to the past
again. Nobody is making such junk. Prove me wrong, but I have found
nothing.

The only solution I have in sight is to buy an HD TV for hundreds of
dollars.

I've been checkmated.




Stuff a QAM tuner in your computer. Hapaugue cards are on Ebay for
about $23, and the work OK. You need an original install disk to install
WinTV7, or Windows Media Center. I've had one for about six months, in
a spare PC running Vista Basic & WinTV7.