What do you think about getting these for a really old TV set? Both my TVs -- one of them a hand-me-down and one a tiny portable bought for the office, to watch the antics of a controversial governor who kept everyone entertained until he was impeached (many, many years ago) -- are pretty decrepit. The big one, a gigantic tube that I can't move by myself and so will need to get a male to come in and help attach the box, no longer communicates with the remote and will not connect with ANY universal remote.

If I get a box within 90 days, that's August. Broadcast analog TV goes extinct next February. If one or both of the dinosaurs dies between August and February, the box is just so much wasted money. To say nothing of adding a dust-catcher for me to have to clean.

Don't watch TV much and am not thrilled about having to pony up $400 for something I look at once or twice a week. But maybe it would be more cost-effective to just go ahead and buy a new TV now? I feel in a quandary about this.