Good video. I bought a TIVO premier paid lifetime on it so thats works out to around $20 a month for 2 years which is what they want for standard subscription. It works with cable or antenna. netflix, amazon, built in. New slider remote that makes searching for shows a breeze now. I shut off Direct TV at 85.00 a month. In about a 13 months I will recoup my total investment. And OTA tv does not suck imo. I get big bang, the closer, law and order etc etc. and it records them all so no commercials.
@Dan12Red The ability to watch that with no ads is a HUGE plus for a guy like me. You got a pretty awesome deal on Tivo.
In the Austin market, we have many channels but few choices as several channels are duplicates. The stations on the other side of Austin in the Hill Country offer even more choice, but the signal isn't strong to begin with and probably would come it, but these converter boxes are locked out of manual tuning for ease of use.
What man did foxtel do to vut my free to air off. it finished. they wont reconnect my free to air but they say it there foxtel is coming from the ground? they installed no leads. simply a lot of banging outside. the spare tv outlet cost $130 before foxtel with brand new rg6.there a box inside the metre box with two coax lead into it.
Perhaps, but he isn't paying for a rip off price for cable anymore. In fact, he probably would have cancelled the subscription soon as analog cable will become a thing of the past.
You don't need to tell me the OTA channels suck. It is why I don't watch TV anymore. There's nothing worth watching.
I have the opposite problem, a SDTV tuner on a HDTV, Where did you get that HDTV tuner? I have been having a really tough time finding one, all I can find are really overpriced cheaply made chinese ones, finding something like a Samsung is like a needle in a haystack.
@weasel2htm This thing is about 6 years old...or more. I'll ask, but I would have preferred a regular cheap converter box so the programs show in the correct aspect ratio instead of putting the squeeze on forced 16:9. Additionally, the OSD doesn't show up, so I don't know what channel I'm on when ads are on.
The only reason we are using it here is because we already had it. He saved about $50 just using this. The customers don't seem to notice.
When I was growing up, we didn't have cable. When I move into the city, cable came with the rent. I tried watching cable and got a little overwhelmed with all the programming. (there is a few shows I watch on cable.) A couple years ago I got a digital tuner for my computer. I got it at Radio Shack. I do all of my over the air recording with it and use the computer as a DVR. It's nice to have it like that.
@inbet1979 I used a TV tuner that was also a video card when I first moved here. it was the only way I could watch TV. I left my big one in Tenn. It could also record.
CATV was great before the addition of all these extra hyper-niche channels. I can't stand it now. Five-hundred channels and not a lot to watch, and we pay for the delivery of all those channels, most of them are not watched.
For some reason, digital broadcast TV always has trouble with aspect ratios. I think the stations just permanently set their aspect ratio as 16:9 at the transmitter, so any 4:3 programming ends up getting pillarboxed within the 16:9 signal. So on a 4:3 TV you often end up with black borders on all sides, unless you set the DTV converter box to "Zoom" mode, which you have to do every time you turn it on because it doesn't save the setting! I never have this problem watching cable TV on a 4:3 set.
@vwestlife We still have analog RF cable here. That's changing though as more analog channels get dumped into the digital realm. Never had a problem with aspect ratios.
You're right about stations forcing 16:9. From what I read, a few stations here do. The cheap converter boxes must be cropping the 16:9 stream.
@CenTexVideo My cable company (CableVision) must have some smart way of telling the digital cable box whether to crop 16:9 video to fit a 4:3 display (simply cutting off the sides, like "Zoom" mode on a DTV box), or to letterbox it, because it automatically and seamlessly switches back and forth between cropped and letterboxed modes depending on the program content. Usually news and sitcoms are cropped (they don't put anything important on the sides anyway) while commercials are letterboxed.
Good video. I bought a TIVO premier paid lifetime on it so thats works out to around $20 a month for 2 years which is what they want for standard subscription. It works with cable or antenna. netflix, amazon, built in. New slider remote that makes searching for shows a breeze now. I shut off Direct TV at 85.00 a month. In about a 13 months I will recoup my total investment. And OTA tv does not suck imo. I get big bang, the closer, law and order etc etc. and it records them all so no commercials.
Dan12Red 2 weeks ago
@Dan12Red The ability to watch that with no ads is a HUGE plus for a guy like me. You got a pretty awesome deal on Tivo.
In the Austin market, we have many channels but few choices as several channels are duplicates. The stations on the other side of Austin in the Hill Country offer even more choice, but the signal isn't strong to begin with and probably would come it, but these converter boxes are locked out of manual tuning for ease of use.
CenTexVideo 2 weeks ago
Did you ever plug that big pecker into an HDTV?
blownup78 3 weeks ago
I didn't understand what most of this meant. Remember when TV was simple?
zengrenouille 1 month ago
What man did foxtel do to vut my free to air off. it finished. they wont reconnect my free to air but they say it there foxtel is coming from the ground? they installed no leads. simply a lot of banging outside. the spare tv outlet cost $130 before foxtel with brand new rg6.there a box inside the metre box with two coax lead into it.
CliveGains80s 2 months ago
Your "free tv channels" are all shit. This is only for fools that subscribe to basic cable
1MaskedMexican 4 months ago
Perhaps, but he isn't paying for a rip off price for cable anymore. In fact, he probably would have cancelled the subscription soon as analog cable will become a thing of the past.
You don't need to tell me the OTA channels suck. It is why I don't watch TV anymore. There's nothing worth watching.
CenTexVideo 4 months ago
@CenTexVideo well its pretty much how you like tv and how often you watch tv
1MaskedMexican 4 months ago
@1MaskedMexican A lot of cable channels are shit, too.
cadmiumblue 3 months ago
@cadmiumblue Like 2% of what I buy I hate.
1MaskedMexican 3 months ago
easy fix for that old tv if you know what ur doin lol
naterade21 4 months ago in playlist More videos from CenTexVideo
@naterade21 Anything can be done! Sadly, the JVC television got rained on last week thanks to a leaky roof.
CenTexVideo 4 months ago
@CenTexVideo as homer simpson would say DOH!
naterade21 4 months ago
I have the opposite problem, a SDTV tuner on a HDTV, Where did you get that HDTV tuner? I have been having a really tough time finding one, all I can find are really overpriced cheaply made chinese ones, finding something like a Samsung is like a needle in a haystack.
weasel2htm 6 months ago
@weasel2htm This thing is about 6 years old...or more. I'll ask, but I would have preferred a regular cheap converter box so the programs show in the correct aspect ratio instead of putting the squeeze on forced 16:9. Additionally, the OSD doesn't show up, so I don't know what channel I'm on when ads are on.
The only reason we are using it here is because we already had it. He saved about $50 just using this. The customers don't seem to notice.
CenTexVideo 6 months ago
Big Brother 13 @ 0:45 !
inbet1979 7 months ago
@inbet1979 You know your programs, don't you? ;-)
CenTexVideo 7 months ago
@CenTexVideo I sure do! lol
When I was growing up, we didn't have cable. When I move into the city, cable came with the rent. I tried watching cable and got a little overwhelmed with all the programming. (there is a few shows I watch on cable.) A couple years ago I got a digital tuner for my computer. I got it at Radio Shack. I do all of my over the air recording with it and use the computer as a DVR. It's nice to have it like that.
inbet1979 7 months ago
@inbet1979 I used a TV tuner that was also a video card when I first moved here. it was the only way I could watch TV. I left my big one in Tenn. It could also record.
CATV was great before the addition of all these extra hyper-niche channels. I can't stand it now. Five-hundred channels and not a lot to watch, and we pay for the delivery of all those channels, most of them are not watched.
CenTexVideo 7 months ago
For some reason, digital broadcast TV always has trouble with aspect ratios. I think the stations just permanently set their aspect ratio as 16:9 at the transmitter, so any 4:3 programming ends up getting pillarboxed within the 16:9 signal. So on a 4:3 TV you often end up with black borders on all sides, unless you set the DTV converter box to "Zoom" mode, which you have to do every time you turn it on because it doesn't save the setting! I never have this problem watching cable TV on a 4:3 set.
vwestlife 7 months ago
@vwestlife We still have analog RF cable here. That's changing though as more analog channels get dumped into the digital realm. Never had a problem with aspect ratios.
You're right about stations forcing 16:9. From what I read, a few stations here do. The cheap converter boxes must be cropping the 16:9 stream.
CenTexVideo 7 months ago
@CenTexVideo My cable company (CableVision) must have some smart way of telling the digital cable box whether to crop 16:9 video to fit a 4:3 display (simply cutting off the sides, like "Zoom" mode on a DTV box), or to letterbox it, because it automatically and seamlessly switches back and forth between cropped and letterboxed modes depending on the program content. Usually news and sitcoms are cropped (they don't put anything important on the sides anyway) while commercials are letterboxed.
vwestlife 7 months ago