Watch HD on widescreen with a HDTV receiver.
If you are looking for a HDTV receiver, you should read the reviews of the various brand names of the receivers on the market. Samsung is a widely respected name when it comes to television sets, but customers who have purchased the Samsung SIR=T165 HDTV Terrestrial receiver have not been completely happy.
HDTV Receivers are not always perfect. They say that the tuner is very slow to respond and the Samsung warranty is virtually worthless. Apparently the problems are caused by the company's haste in bringing the product to the market without fully checking it out.
For those that really enjoy watching television and hurry home with the Samsung receiver ready to enjoy high definition TV, they are often disappointed. The set top box seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to remembering channels and programs that you pause or record. There is a programming bug in the ASTC mode used by FOX when transmitting widescreen resulting in the top and the bottom of the image being cut off. This does not make for a very good picture on the screen when you are watching your favorite team.
Samsung is a company from Korea, so if you do have a problem, it is very costly to send it back to the company. Dealers in North America don't really have a way of getting in contact with the manufacturers and the company itself does not have an firmware to deal with the high definition television receiver problems.
Terrestrial Digital HDTV antennas and receivers are now available to customers all over North America. There is a growing demand in Canada for the products that will allow customers to watch high definition TV without having to pay subscription fees to cable and satellite providers.
The receiver will pull the broadcast signal from the airwaves and decode it so you can watch movies and programs right on your TV or computer. The Lacrosse HD TV antenna from Terrestrial has earned top honors from consumers and outperforms all other brand name receivers and antennas.