Whether America's TV stations eventually wind up on VHF or UHF won't matter to me anyway, as I don't bother with RF signals since connecting my flat screen to a Roku box last year. This player deals only with video streams, not RF. The only requirement is that users must have a cable account in order for the player to receive local TV channels. The picture on my set is now much better than anything I ever saw in analog, so to me paying $25 or so monthly for a cable connection, even though I don't use it, is well worth it. Spectrum, formerly Time Warner Cable, is converting all its systems to 100-percent digital on October 3, so it is a good thing I do have the Roku; as a Spectrum representative told me recently, those players will work in place of a cable box, but TVs connected directly to cable will not. The only way to get TV without a box of some kind is to use an antenna, as was commonplace in the late 1940s through the beginning of the DTV era.
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Jeff, WB8NHV
Collecting, restoring and enjoying vintage Zenith radios since 2002
Zenith. Gone, but not forgotten.
Last edited by Jeffhs; 09-22-2017 at 07:15 PM.
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