Posted by Svetaswan-2 on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Digital-converter-for-t-v-problems-help-appreciated-tp1553564p1553571.html



--- In [hidden email], "Marc Martin" <marc@...> wrote:

>
> Comcast has different kinds of digital converter boxes -- maybe you'd
> do better with a different model? We've got one of the HDTV DVR boxes,
> and it seems fine to me...

------->Well, it sounds like getting a different kind of digital converter box would equate to upgrading my service - which I pretty much want to avoid, if possible. (I may have no choice in the matter, anyway.) It costs extra for an HDTV box...even more for one with DVR, I presume. I don't have a HDTV anyway - at least not yet.

Two t.v.s in my home are equipped with Comcast's much larger digital cable service box - the kind that enables you to get the zillion channels that Comcast offers (depending on what package you purchase), plus "On Demand" service. The plan we have doesn't allow for more than two t.v.s to get the full-service box - which means the t.v.s in my and my brother's bedrooms are out-of-luck. When I'm in the vicinity of these big boxes, I don't seem to have much of any problems - I mean, I've been around these boxes for years and haven't felt any particular discomfort. So I have an idea of what you mean when you say that a different box may be less troublesome. But I don't know how possible it would be to experiment with different boxes when it would basically mean upgrading our service plan.

But it's possible that Comcast/Motorolla may be building *all* of their boxes more cheaply and less emf-safe these days. I don't know how old your HDTV/DVR box is, but our full-sized boxes are several years old, I believe.

Could this be Comcast's devious way of forcing an upgrade? J/K - I think.

~Svetaswan


>
>
> No, you can't make a generalization about surge protectors based on one
> persons reaction to one particular surge protector. I have no problem
> at all with the Furman PST-8 or PST-10, for example. Although these
> are pretty expensive.
>
> Marc
>

----------->I wasn't referring to the Furman or any of the "filtering" power strips when I made that reference to what you said earlier. I thought you were saying that the regular, run-of-the-mill surge-protector/strips - the kind that have no "special" properties and that you can find pretty much anywhere - may exacerbate the RF/emf problems of appliances. In other words, if my brother's generic, "cheap" surge protector was replaced by a Furman (or a Quantum) power strip, would that make things significantly better?

~Svetaswan