Cheap Digital to Analog Converters Are Available (Score 2, Informative)

Uhh, bullshit. We haven't been able to buy affordable digital receivers, ever. In fact, there's still no affordable digital receivers - they're all built into expensive HDTV's.

Well, if one considers $89.00 affordable, you can buy one right now on www.newegg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16882107049/ How do I know? I just bought one and it came yesterday. I was able to get 15 HDTV/DTV stations without issue (basically looked like a DVD on my analog set but still pretty good). When combined with the $40 coupon that the government proposes to issue, boxes like these will be quite affordable.

While researching what was out there I also came across these other digital-to-analog converters as well:

(Microtek ZAT-600HD $299) http://store.microtek.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=2 85/

(Michley Tivax $159 New on Ebay) http://www.tivax.com/product1.htm/

Cheap D-to-A converters are starting to show up on the market, and I predict that by the time 2008 comes around they will be much more plentiful. Especially since most major cities are already broadcasting local channels in HD. I just didn't feel like waiting around for the $40 coupon. :-)