04-22-2009, 03:09 PM
I'm assuming that the "cheapo digital converter boxes" that you refer to are the ones sold in stores for the NTSC->ATSC conversion that will be taking place for broadcast TV.
Those will only help if you get your signal from an antenna rather than from Comcast. But given that your TV has a QAM tuner, it probably also has an ATSC tuner and hooking up an antenna to it would do the same thing without one of those boxes, and would also get you HD on those local channels.
Those will only help if you get your signal from an antenna rather than from Comcast. But given that your TV has a QAM tuner, it probably also has an ATSC tuner and hooking up an antenna to it would do the same thing without one of those boxes, and would also get you HD on those local channels.