Analog TV converter boxes

I can vouch mine works fine both sides of the border. Use it all the time up here in Canada and just did a 3 week trip from Calgary across to west coast down the Oregon coast and back and had good TV all the way where we had a signal. A couple of places we unhooked the cable as we thought the regular stations were more to our liking on the converter box.

I live right across-the-river so to speak, from Canada (Buffalo, NY area) and when I do a channel scan for digital "air" channels when my MH is parked in the driveway, I receive several Canadian stations as well as our local stations. No problem here. Same applies to the TV's in the house. None of my televisions have yet to burn up. :W

Did not mean to insult our Canadian neighbors as I love Canada. I did not think it had anything to do with Canadian TV stations. I thought someone out there might have had the same problem & had a easy fix. I believe the boxes are just shot. Our grandsons were watching a DVD in the rear & we did not have the TV on in front. The TV in the rear quit working completely. I unplugged the TV for a couple of hours and it started working again,but the box will not convert to HD. Ditto the front TV. Have tried most of the above before I started this post with no success. Thanks again for all the help.

frankdamp wrote:
AFAIK, the Canadian conversion from analog to digital was completely different from its US counterpart, so you also need a Canadian D-A converter.

My US converters work just fine for stations located in Sarnia, I pick up two of them where my Motor home is parked.. Plus an analog as well.

Yeah....
Canadians with their own TV system
Canadians destroying converter boxes
And now their taking over the world...

NO BEER FOR YOU! GO TO YOUR ROOMS...

This thread is like watching the Twilight Zone. Obviously our Canadian Digital TV destroyed the converter boxes. The Canadian Cell phone system is also designed to disrupt US Cell phone service (roaming maybe?). You have got to be kidding!

First to the comment "You set the TV to Cable not Air"

There are in fact several channel assignment schemes for cable, one for air, The AIR assignment (old analog days) is shared both sides of the border.

And in all cases Channel 3 is the same, be it cable, digital cable, different schems, or Antenna, channel 3 is the same.. So forget that one

That said. it is a logical suggestion

On the converters.. Unplug them for five minutes.. Then plug them back in

While you have them Turn them on THEN have the TV scan for channel 3 (Or manually set it to 3) NOTE that there are actually 3 of each channel (low/middle/high) so it might be best to scan if it does not lock in well

You should have the converter menu

Then try scanning

As I recall, Canada may not have fully gone digital yet... You MIGHT have set the analog bypass or manually bypassed the converters.. if you did that you will have to restore conversion.

But step one is to get the converter "Welcome" screen on the TV screen.

IF you are near St. Clair, MI.. I may be able to help you next week.. This week I'm kind of tied up here in the cardiac care ward dodging a heart attack. (Successfully it appears). (Well if it was not successful.. I'd not be typing now would I)

Everyone thinks we are the quiet polite northern neighbour. In fact we are just preparing our
surveillance systems for the day in the very near future when we take control of the WORLD!

Turn the convertor box off. Some Canadian channels still broadcast in analog.

I would like thank everyone for responding,but none of the above related to my problem. We suspect both converter boxes may have had a time limit on them. We are going to solve the problem by buying two HD wide screen TV's and be done with it. Thanks again.