Michael Black wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, 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.

When Canada went to DTV in September 2 years ago, I did put off
dealing with it until the May of that year. We didn't get the free
converter deal that the US got, and initially the flyers were showing
$80 coverters.
And at that point I decided I might as well spend $120 more and get an
actual HDTV set. I got the better definition, I got an LCD set (so
much smaller, and less heat it seems), I got closed captions (I was
using a Commodore monitor with a VCR for reception for about 15
years, before that a TV set too old to do captions), and some other
new and neat things. It was also the first new tv set I'd gotten
since 1982. SO the money wasnt' that bad, and I would have had to
spend just under half for a converter.
Sometimes change is good, you'll actually get better definition,
rather than the new transmission on an old tv set.

Mytv set runs Linux, my old tv set didn't even have a computer. And
that blu-ray player that I found in the garbage on July 1st is
working fine, and it too runs Linux.

Michael

It still may not work with cable without a cable company provided settop box.