Originally Posted by Piggie

That is what I find so odd about my chineese, el cheapo, off brand Ölevia.
I was not bragging above taking about it, I find it odd it's my best tuner.

I bought it Thanksgiving 2007 on sale. In reviews I found it was on sale last time in big box stores for Christmas 2006. I then could determine that it was first released in Summer of 2006 about. So figure from that it was at newest early 2006 technology.

And it's my best tuner????????????????????

It will beat my CECB boxes including an Insignia which is the DXers choice.

That blows out some of the chip information, unless I don't know that the newest chip design was as far back as early 2006?????

I have no other info and probably can't find much unless someone that knows the generations of chips chimes in.

Again I am guessing but I think most of the CECBs were designed in early or mid 2007?


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Aside:

I remember looking for any converter for a friend in late 2007 and all we could find were real HD outputs and about $200 and only a couple of models.

I remember thinking before I understood how much good is a $40 coupon going to be on a $200 box. I didn't realize a special generation would be coming out.

I remember thinking at the time also that time was running out for people and what would they do? (didn't realize the CECBs were going to be made at that point).

Looking back if most stations where on the air by 2003, why did CECBs come out in 2008? And why did they wait until 2007 to mandate ATSC tuners? I still think that was one of the biggest mistakes of the transition.

Originally Posted by bicker

Cost-reduced chips definitely have a major impact. I know that the original HD TiVo, the TiVo Series 3, sold for $800 when it came out in 2006, and only dipped below $500 when it finally was being cleared out of inventories. By comparison, the follow-on TiVo HD, which was in most ways simply a cost-reduced version of the TiVo S3, started at $400 and have come down to $250. The TiVo S3 was priced based on cost, because it was so costly. As a result, it sold for a price higher than most reasonable people would think was fair. The TiVo HD is selling roughly at cost, and with the requirement for purchasing service for the device, presumable selling at a profit, getting TiVo closer to pricing based on value, which is better for TiVo.