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(More customer reviews)First off, I'd like to say that I finally decided to get rid of my cable TV subscription after all these years. Paying more than $1000 a year for cable just doesn't justify getting 500 channels (for a TV that costs $500!), which I hardly watch anyway! Comcast is the only cable company in my area so I'm stuck with a $100 a month subscription. That said, this tuner is worth more than the $100 I paid for. Also, with a better antenna (for about $50), you can get even more channels than you need. I was able to scan 25 channels and I live on the first floor in a busy, apartment complex in Northern VA!
I've been using this tuner for 2 days now and it's working almost flawlessly (very few dropouts through DVI-D to HDMI connection) so I'm very, very happy with its performance. I will, however, say that the sound through HDMI has all sorts of dropouts (I suspect that it's the HDMI cable that is causing this problem, so I probably will buy a new and better cable later to try this out). I connected an external speaker through the analog audio out instead and I'm not getting ANY sound dropout at all, so I'm sure it's not the RECEPTION. Video is almost flawless!
Just being able to watch NBC, FOX, WETA, and WDCA in HD more than justifies the cost of this tuner! I highly recommend it.
UPDATE (JUNE 12, 2010) - This tuner is still working fine after 3 months ($300 saved without cable subscription!) so it has paid for itself already. As for how reliable this tuner is, I remember having to unplug it about 3 times in the past 3 months because it just stopped working alltogether. It's a normal "reboot" so I'd say that's not so bad. I currently have this tuner connected to an Epson EX51 projector (awesome to see HD broadcasts at 80 INCHES!!! see my review) and I could receive 1080p broadcasts through this (WRC (NBC), WTTG (FOX), WJLA (ABC), WDCA, WETA, WHUT, CW50, and ION). Of course, not all these channels broadcasts in 1080p 24/7 but it's great to see that they do off and on (usually prime time). There are also a few other channels that broadcast in HD, but not all the time. All I can say now is it's definitely a keeper and I would buy ANOTHER if this one fails!
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