Digital tuner gone bad? - Page 3

I had recently purchased a plasma TV cheaply because its ATSC tuner went dead. My solution was to purchase the Coby DTV-140 HD tuner, which can be found as inexpensive as those SD CECBs.

Hopefully you'll have better luck than I had with several $19.99 Coby DVD players, they both died in less than a year and were used <10 hrs. each
That tuner looks very similar to the DVD players. You might want to post your link in this Coby thread.
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Coby is the brand I see for cheap stuff in drugstores like CVS; my perception is I wouldn't waste my money on that brand.

ZAT would be interesting to toggle I try to avoid watching HD when out and about just for that reason since I'm still a caveman.

Is your Centronics made by Coby?

Thanks. I think it was post #65 above that had me confused.

Coby is Chinese for "s**t".

With a name like "Coby", I might've thought they would be beefy and made in Japan, but I guess not.

Well not much on this CVS/Pharmacy search

http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/search/sea...acet=SRCH:coby

but flip through their ads and Coby stuff is on sale now and then. Craig too; I have the impression they've gone Cobyish, not the ol' Craig car radios I remember.

Yeah, Craig is pretty bad. Probably right about up there with Audiovox.

I went with crts and bought a separate tuner just in case.

Aren't the bluray dvd recorders using a hidef tuner?

They are making a big mistake not putting hidef tuners in most dvd recorders.

Also check dvr/dvd recorders.

The panasonics and a few others will run dvd/ram.
I won't buy a recorder that won't.