We have the Verizon Triple Play, which should give us Local TV channels. We recently downgraded our services from Premium Channels to local channels and had to return the Verizon premium converter box, so that we wouldn't have to pay rental fees.
In its place, we purchased from Best Buy the Insignia Digital to Analog converter box. This box is advertised as being able to convert a coaxial cable signal. This box is the current state of the art -- it is the only one that Best Buy currently sells.
We successfully installed the converter box to our TV, and also attached a coaxial cable from the Verizon signal splitter (part of the splitter going to the Internet router) to our "RF In" plug on the converter box.
The converter box scans for TV channels per its signal to the TV, but does not find any channels at all.
My wife was visited by the Verizon technician today, and she was told that the TV was too old (!) and that we need to rent at $4 a month the Verizon digital to analog converter box. The whole reason we downgraded our plan was to save money so we wouldn't have to rent equipment from Verizon.
"The TV is too old" is a horrible explanation -- the problem is not with the TV, the problem is that the converter box doesn't get any channels from the Verizon coaxial cable. If there's any problem at all, it is with the converter box, not with the TV. The converter box is sending a signal to the TV, and the signal is telling us that the converter box can't find a channel.
Does anyone have a believable explanation for the problem that I'm having, and why it can only be solved by renting a Verizon digital to analog converter box at $4 a month? The explanation from the Verizon tech is not at all believable.
Thank you for any help and assistance you can offer!