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<<the use of a UHF converter is pointless because they won't work with the new signals>>
(pointless, arguably so - I think the posters on this thread just WANT to see a UHF converter work, out of personal curiosity. The question here is can a UHF converter -pass- a "newer signal" down to a CECB, and it CAN).
<<The old UHF converters were made obsolete when the all-channel reception rules became law in 1964>>.
(oddly, they really came into their own -after- 1964, when independent UHF stations started coming on the air in large cities, startups made possible by the all-channel law, and many people still had pre-1964 sets with only VHF tuners. My own childhood is a case in point, we did not know of UHF until our parents got a RCA CTC-38 in 1969. The 1959 GE M4 became the second set. There was a great degree of tension between us and our parents, who wanted to watch the color tv in the living room, and would tell us to watch the GE upstairs, only we couldn't, because it lacked a UHF tuner. In the seventies, at least before 9 P.M., UHF stations were like the Nickelodeon of the day. To children, the Big Three were like what would now be called a mixture of CNN and Hallmark Channel, except on Friday evening and Saturday morning. A UHF converter would have brought my parents a lot of peace, but they weren't technically inclined to know they existed. I bought a used one with my paper route money in 1979).
<<The converters can still be used (for now, anyway) with old sets that do not have factory-installed UHF tuners, such as many of us here on AK have in our collections; however, the converters will be absolutely useless after February 19 next year, when the analog TV stations (including UHF) will go off the air permanently.>>
(True, except low-power stations, and foreign analog stations for those who live in border areas, but those are almost trivial).
<<It is impossible to purchase a new analog TV with an NTSC tuner today>>
(an -analog-only- tuner, virtually all the new sets have analog tuners as well as digital, for analog cable customers, and since many of the same sets made for the USA market are also sold in Canada and Mexico, where analog tuners will remain vital until 2011 or later)
Rob.
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