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One of the first-generation digital-TV converters (DTV Pal made by Echostar, I think) was supposed to be able to convert digital guide information into the TV Guide Plus format on its NTSC output, provided that at least one TV station in any given city set up its digital-TV transmitter to send out the digital equivalent signal, but I don't remember ever hearing of this setup working any place.
Without that digital-to-analog conversion, some DVR boxes (LG and Sony, if I remember right) became near-doorstops once they had no source of guide information, since they could NOT be adapted to set their recording timers by the digital guide data even though they had digital as well as NTSC tuners in them.
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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