Samsung HDTV Digital Terrestrial Receiver
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Samsung DTBH260F High Definition Terrestrial Tuner
Samsung brings you great flexibility for delivering FREE over-the-air digital television signals to a
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Samsung DTBH260F High Definition Terrestrial Tuner
Samsung brings you great flexibility for delivering FREE over-the-air digital television signals to a
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I need to supplement the analog tuners in my DVRs. This unit is useless for anything that does not have a RGB or HDMI input. The sound quality using analog connections is awful, too. The unit produces a loud buzz on the audio channels that makes hearing any sounds practically impossible.
You cannot use this unit on an analog-only TV or a VCR or DVR with analog-only inputs. I tried every connection on the back of the box & could not get a picture through my recorder. The RGB component connection worked only on my TV, but I don't need it there.
It also nearly fried my DVRs tuner using the antenna output. After I tried connecting it, the DVR would only receive channel 4 & I could not change the channel through either the remote or the unit's control panel. I had to completely reset the unit & run factory setup again to get it working.
This turned out to be a very expensive fiasco for me.
The manual leaves out a lot of instructions on how to set the unit up and does not make a point
You cannot use this unit on an analog-only TV or a VCR or DVR with analog-only inputs. I tried every connection on the back of the box & could not get a picture through my recorder. The RGB component connection worked only on my TV, but I don't need it there.
It also nearly fried my DVRs tuner using the antenna output. After I tried connecting it, the DVR would only receive channel 4 & I could not change the channel through either the remote or the unit's control panel. I had to completely reset the unit & run factory setup again to get it working.
This turned out to be a very expensive fiasco for me.
The manual leaves out a lot of instructions on how to set the unit up and does not make a point
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Not wanting to pay for poor local cable service, I put up a rooftop antenna and used this tuner with an older 720p LCD TV. Set-up was a brick wall at first because the manual isn't very useful. Finding auto-scan got things going. An online web site translating DTV to channel frequencies helped in manually adding channels that needed antenna rotation.
HDTV colors are rich and cinema-like though the HDMI port. Digital audio and video quality is as good as the TV station can provide. Reception is very good. Channels that have moderate snow and ghosting in analog are flawless in digital. Urban power line noise and overhead airplane ghosting is gone. Analog only wins on the faintest stations.
The remote control is more useful than a stick only because the tuner has no buttons on its front. The remote has to be aimed within 15 degrees and held still while pushing buttons. You can't bounce the IR off a wall, send it through a glass table, or tap the buttons while it sits on a table
HDTV colors are rich and cinema-like though the HDMI port. Digital audio and video quality is as good as the TV station can provide. Reception is very good. Channels that have moderate snow and ghosting in analog are flawless in digital. Urban power line noise and overhead airplane ghosting is gone. Analog only wins on the faintest stations.
The remote control is more useful than a stick only because the tuner has no buttons on its front. The remote has to be aimed within 15 degrees and held still while pushing buttons. You can't bounce the IR off a wall, send it through a glass table, or tap the buttons while it sits on a table
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The Samsung DTB-H260F is a high definition digital receiver that I researched for a long time before purchasing it. Pros: 1) the tuner is quite sensitive and will pick up many more digital tv stations than the government-approved converter boxes; 2) with a strong enough digital broadcast signal and the right equipment, you'll be able to receive gorgeous hi-def video with hi-fi 5.1 surround sound for free; 3) digital broadcasts are a definite improvement over analog ones. Cons: 1) you cannot add stations manually--all you can do to add a new channel is perform an auto scan after moving your antenna and hope that you pick up additional channels (but you may also lose some channels); some of the menu items (e.g., signal strength meter) are buried deep in the menu and require the user to go through several layers of choices to access them. Please note that in order to get the full benefits of this receiver, you must have a tv that has either HDMI and/or component video inputs. If you have only
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If you're planning to use this product to receive digital TV broadcasts on your old standard definition (SD) analog TV, this unit has serious limitations.
For many such TVs, you would have to use either the composite or s-video output from the Samsung, but they did not implement the on-screen menus, signal strength meter, etc. on those outputs, which means that many of the features that justify this unit's price will not be available to you.
One of the missing features is the manual aspect ratio correction, which allows you to correct the stretching of the picture that makes people look either too thin or too fat, depending on the direction of the stretching. This appears to only be a problem when viewing a high definition (HD) broadcast on an SD TV. SD broadcasts viewed on an SD TV are OK. Still, for people like me who can't stand the stretching, it's a serious drawback.
These features are available on the component video output if your TV has that type of input, and the component video
For many such TVs, you would have to use either the composite or s-video output from the Samsung, but they did not implement the on-screen menus, signal strength meter, etc. on those outputs, which means that many of the features that justify this unit's price will not be available to you.
One of the missing features is the manual aspect ratio correction, which allows you to correct the stretching of the picture that makes people look either too thin or too fat, depending on the direction of the stretching. This appears to only be a problem when viewing a high definition (HD) broadcast on an SD TV. SD broadcasts viewed on an SD TV are OK. Still, for people like me who can't stand the stretching, it's a serious drawback.
These features are available on the component video output if your TV has that type of input, and the component video
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I've been using two of these beauties for a year now connected to my Comcast
basic-basic $13/mo cable. The first one was to provide HD to my older "HD ready"
wide screen TV. Later, I bought a smaller Sharp Aquos LCD TV for another room and
was disappointed by its HD picture quality. I moved the Samsung box from the other
TV to this one to try (via HDMI) cable and, voila, awesome picture quality. So, I
bought a 2nd Samsung DTB-H260F and am foregoing the inferior HD tuner in my new
Sharp TV (I've since learned that the best thing to buy is a TV monitor [no tuner inside]
and attach it to one of these Samsung set-top-boxes).
Reception is exceptional. I get all the HD channels I'm supposed to get plus the analog
ones. Only a couple of times has the box not responded to up or down arrow channel
changes. Powering off/on the set-top-box resolved this.
I recently bought a TivoHD thinking it was time to move in the recording, time delayed
mode mode of watching TV. I
basic-basic $13/mo cable. The first one was to provide HD to my older "HD ready"
wide screen TV. Later, I bought a smaller Sharp Aquos LCD TV for another room and
was disappointed by its HD picture quality. I moved the Samsung box from the other
TV to this one to try (via HDMI) cable and, voila, awesome picture quality. So, I
bought a 2nd Samsung DTB-H260F and am foregoing the inferior HD tuner in my new
Sharp TV (I've since learned that the best thing to buy is a TV monitor [no tuner inside]
and attach it to one of these Samsung set-top-boxes).
Reception is exceptional. I get all the HD channels I'm supposed to get plus the analog
ones. Only a couple of times has the box not responded to up or down arrow channel
changes. Powering off/on the set-top-box resolved this.
I recently bought a TivoHD thinking it was time to move in the recording, time delayed
mode mode of watching TV. I
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