RE: need tuners for monitors

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In Reply to: need tuners for monitors posted by Joe Murphy Jr on September 5, 2011 at 14:19:36:

You seem to be comparing a specialty item versus a item that benefits from economy of scale. TV tuners have always been a specialty item and therefore expensive. I recall when Sony introduced the Profeel line, and other manufacturers copied the component TV concept. That didn't last very long, but there were nice looking TV tuners to match hifi equipment for a while. The tuner half of portable VHS recorders was one way to get a TV tuner back in the days before camcorders.
The recent CECB was a (one-time?) historical aberration for a low-cost (ATSC) tuner (w/only NTSC outputs).
I suspect your requirement for a NTSC and QAM settop box means it's targeted for a very tiny tiny market (an analog subscriber who wants to see the locals & anything else in clear QAM, and using a monitor or TV w/broken tuner). Do cable companies even use/offer such a combination of tuners in their STB? Wouldn't the subscriber either have just an all analog package or all digital?
Maybe you should consider separate tuners, like a old VCR plus a digital tuner (such as the Centronics or ChannelMaster CM-7001).

BTW from what I've seen recently from both Cox and TimeWarner analog feeds, analog PQ has really gone downhill. Both cases looked much worse on CRT TVs than what a ChannelMaster CECB can do with OTA.

Edits: 09/05/11 09/05/11 09/05/11 09/05/11 09/05/11

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Topic - need tuners for monitors - Joe Murphy Jr 14:19:36 09/05/11 (4)

RE: need tuners for monitors - blue_z 19:12:42 09/05/11 (3)

can't agree with that - Joe Murphy Jr 21:53:35 09/05/11 (2)

your ranting might be rewarded - blue_z 18:00:22 09/07/11 (1)

that's $35 more than the $65 it's not worth - Joe Murphy Jr 22:38:55 09/07/11 (0)

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RE: need tuners for monitors - blue_z 19:12:42 09/05/11 (3)

can't agree with that - Joe Murphy Jr 21:53:35 09/05/11 (2)

your ranting might be rewarded - blue_z 18:00:22 09/07/11 (1)

that's $35 more than the $65 it's not worth - Joe Murphy Jr 22:38:55 09/07/11 (0)

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