Post by PeterYou comment about the built-in tuner in your VCR. If yours has a
digital tuner you've got a rare and expensive beast. If it is an analog
tuner you're limited anyway to taping 1 show because I've never seen a
set-top cable, satellite, or digital-to-analog converter box that can be
programmed to change channels unattended. All those set-top boxes also
have some combination of composite, s-video, component, or hdmi outputs,
so the VCR's own tuner is redundant. The programmable timer and a
video/audio input jack on the VCR is all you need these days.
Dish TV sold and may still sell a settop box, digiatl to analog, that
has a timer and will change digital channels unattended.
In addtion to the $40 coupon it cost me 40 dollars 2+ years ago I
think it wa
It has to have the same times as the VCR of course, which is set to
channel 3 or 4 of course. (It also has other advantages including
an on-screen tv schedule which is better than my other settop box's,
but still not good enough and I just use www.zap2it.com . OTOH, it has
not a single button on the box.)
s.
I tholught there would be a glut of second-hand settop boxes as the
years went on, but I've only seen two and they were no bargains.
Why DISH sold something that seems to compete with DISH tv, I do not
know.
Also, the box seems to go on for no apparent reason. I"ve been told
the comactFL's emit IR. But when it goes on for no reason, it doesn't
receive anything and I can't use it's remote to change stations. All
that is on is the red led. It also goes off for no reason, but who
knows when. I can't turn it off with the remote, I can only do that
by unplugging it for a very short time, then plugging it in, and then
iirc turning it off. OTOH, it doesn't interfere with anything when it
is "on", unless I want to use it, because I can't turn it "actually
on". If yo ever have one, yours might work better of course.
If I didn't have a DVDR until yesterday, I would want this.
P&M