[BC] An HD Tuner for $110

[Dennis Cope]

This is why, after some research, I bought a Sony SAT-HD-300 receiver.  It
outputs both analog and digital at the same time.
Some of the home receivers have a little switch on the back to let the user
select one or the other.

I just wish they would put a clock on the front.

Dennis
WESR, WCTG



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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]On Behalf Of Alan Kline
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 02:14
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Subject: RE: [BC] An HD Tuner for $110


When we built our new MCR this fall, we installed a Yamaha home-theater
audio
system to be able to monitor the 5.1 as a viewer would receive it.  Wow....
When the "Who Are You?" plays over the "CSI" titles, I can crank it way up
and rumble the floors thorough the whole building... and football in 5.1
is pretty good, too.

Now, if we just had a video monitor for the DTV that was as good as the
audio
monitoring.  The best video monitor in the building is the one in the
lobby...

Pet peeve--Manufacturers who make professional HD equipment without an
analog
output.  We just received a new HDTV receiver for the network feed, with no
analog.  Don't these people think that stations would want a simple,
inexpensive
way to provide a confidence monitor on the wall, just as we have for the
analog
network line? For that application, I don't need 16 x 9.  I just need to see
that
there's a signal being passed by the receiver, and that it's the right
signal.
Not having that ability has burned us a few times.

Grumble... ;-)

ak