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It makes sense to know what is available at your location before you buy equipment.
Most everybody I know has basic cable and either a QAM-equipped TV or the Comcast-issued Motorola-built converter and universal remote. Analog cable has been gone now for two years!
I am very cheap, have little time to watch anything and get very good OTA signal, so ATSC it. We use a Toshiba DVD recorder that has a built-in ATSC tuner. This replaces the 1986 Panasonic stereo VCR, that was fine for analog-era time-shifted recording.
I bought a Samsung DTB-h260, an excellent ATSC and QAM set-top box, then realized its on-screen menu displays only on 720p. Again, being cheap, we only have SDTV at least with component video inputs. I gave the DTB-h260 to my wifes brother, who has a Panasonic plasma 720p AND cable/antenna.
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