i promise this entry will be short.....i am about to fall asleep. and it is only 5 pm...........zzzzzzzzzzz.
success is mine.....finally. i did the unthinkable today.....unthinkable for me....
i WENT TO WALMART!! i hate going to walmart, even when it is not busy. i just hate the parking lot, and trying to find a space that doesn't require me to walk 50 miles. but anywho, i found a spot near the door and went in. i was in search of the digital converter boxes for my tv. they had told me they would be getting some in this weekend, so i held my breath until i reached the electronics department. and when i got there, i checked the shelf and VOILA....there they were. there were about 20 on the shelf, so i grabbed my share (2) and went to the checkout. the girl was really nice (another oddity at wallyworld these days) and she took both of my coupons and charged me $9 each for the boxes plus tax. woohoooooo! i only have one tv, but i figured that the salvation army store will be getting a lot of older tvs in over the next month or so due to the digital conversion on feb. 17th, and i could buy me another tv for the bedroom. then i would have another digital conversion box for that tv. if i don't get another tv, i can still sell the converter box to someone who needs it and doesn't have a coupon to go buy one.
ok, the next step.....connecting the box. i figured all i would need to do is hook up and plug in, sit back....and enjoy. WRONG!! it said "NO SIGNAL" on the screen. sigh.....why me??? then i got out the instructions and read them, lol. i was able to at least get programming to come up on my tv. some of the channels are not sending out good signals as of yet, but i am still getting all of the channels i was getting before, plus the extra ones you get with the box. so i am at least a halfway happy camper for now.
now i am going to take a nap......................................
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4 comments:
I bought my converter box several months ago and I haven't even opened it to see if I have the brains to hook it up. I still have a VCR and something else hooked up to the TV so I'm dreading it. lol
Glad you got your converter boxes. I did get one but gave it my mom as the tv I was going to use it on was so old it didn't have the proper connections. LOL.
Our other tv's are on Dish Network so we should be okay with them.
I hate Walmart too. I've only been there twice and that was two times too many for me.
Isn't it funny how when you are used to something you get that you don't like it...when we were on holday in the US we loved to go to Walmart it was so big and had so much in it we were like kids in a toy shop...we kept calling to each other come and see this, or that. etc. etc.
However I am glad that you got your convertor box so cheap. This area goes digital in 2010 I think. However whe I had to get a new TV last year it had the digital thing y inside it and when the man came to fix it up all he had to do was change the ariel somehow..so I now get quite a few programmes not that there is ever very much of interest to watch it just sits in teh corner chatting away to iteslf !!
Have a good day...keep smiling
Love Sybil xx
When I go shopping, Regina, I go with a list. Glad you managed to tame the C-box
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