TV Converter
DTV SUCKS
Well, it's been something like a year since I got my first Digital TV Converter Box. Since I have two TVs and was able to get a second coupon, I bought a second box as well.
Interestingly though, about 2 months ago, the first box started to change channels by itself. I wasted so many hours trying to figure out what was wrong with the damn thing but couldn't. Finally, I swapped the two boxes and the oldest box still changes channels by itself in the new room.
Now the new box is having trouble as well. Frequently it loses sound and so all I get is a steady stream of beeps that continue for hours, days, weeks...
In addition to that, I now get all sorts of snow-like interference which somehow seems to be connected to the interface between the device and the antenna. I can get it to go away, but it always returns and often is so bad as to make the picture completely unwatchable.
Then of course there are the constant problems with the poor picture. One day it's crystal clear, the next, there is no signal. Change channels and you have to monkey with the antenna, so I don't bother watching any other channels. I just want to leave the antenna set so I can get the channel I usually watch, but this is no guarantee that I'll be able to get anything but a bunch of stupid little blocks on the screen.
So, $80 later, I can honestly say that I'm in much worse shape than if we had left TV alone. Like I said back then, I shouldn't have spent the money. I don't really need fucking TV and I'll be damned if I am going to pay for the shit. My gut reaction was to NOT spend anything and not care that I'd no longer be able to watch TV. Well, $80 later, that's exactly where I'm at anyway.
FUCK TECHNOLOGY
Well, it's been something like a year since I got my first Digital TV Converter Box. Since I have two TVs and was able to get a second coupon, I bought a second box as well.
Interestingly though, about 2 months ago, the first box started to change channels by itself. I wasted so many hours trying to figure out what was wrong with the damn thing but couldn't. Finally, I swapped the two boxes and the oldest box still changes channels by itself in the new room.
Now the new box is having trouble as well. Frequently it loses sound and so all I get is a steady stream of beeps that continue for hours, days, weeks...
In addition to that, I now get all sorts of snow-like interference which somehow seems to be connected to the interface between the device and the antenna. I can get it to go away, but it always returns and often is so bad as to make the picture completely unwatchable.
Then of course there are the constant problems with the poor picture. One day it's crystal clear, the next, there is no signal. Change channels and you have to monkey with the antenna, so I don't bother watching any other channels. I just want to leave the antenna set so I can get the channel I usually watch, but this is no guarantee that I'll be able to get anything but a bunch of stupid little blocks on the screen.
So, $80 later, I can honestly say that I'm in much worse shape than if we had left TV alone. Like I said back then, I shouldn't have spent the money. I don't really need fucking TV and I'll be damned if I am going to pay for the shit. My gut reaction was to NOT spend anything and not care that I'd no longer be able to watch TV. Well, $80 later, that's exactly where I'm at anyway.
FUCK TECHNOLOGY
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posted by xj at 4:37 PM
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