Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Samsung DTBH260F HDTV Terrestrial Receiver

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Samsung DTBH260F HDTV Terrestrial Receiver
  • I've been using two of these beauties for a year now connected to my Comcastbasic-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 andwas disappointed by its HD picture quality. I moved the Samsung box from the otherTV to this one to try (via HDMI) cable and, voila, awesome picture quality. So, Ibought a 2nd Samsung DTB-H260F and am foregoing the inferior HD tuner in my newSharp 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…
  • Pros:- Good tuner performance, awesome HD picture quality- Relatively fast channel switching performance- Nice station info and display (station ID, 480i/720p/1080i, etc)- Nice responsive graphical interface- Favorite channel setting- Small profile. No fan, quiet.Cons:- annoying picture shift and overscan on 480i SD material.This can be easily seen when comparing the output with an analog VCR tuned to the same station as the digital one.Toggle the output switch (480i/p/720/1080), and the shift/overscan is gone. BUT, as soon as you switch the channel, it happens again. This happens on all of the outputs, even HDMI.- No option to output HD material at native resolution (as is, not either 720p…
Product Features
  • Digital terrestrial receiver
  • All 18 ATSC formats
  • HDMI, component, composite, S/PDIF (optical)
  • High gloss, stylish design
  • Parent control

 

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