Samsung SIR-T151 HDTV Receiver with Dolby Digital DTV Decoder
Works great except for Whine/hum and heat
I live in Houston suburbs and this thing out of the box on a amped antenna with the amp unplugged got 8 of 10 stations.  There is a auto channel scan that works great for setting itself up.  <br />Hook ups all work as you would expect, and the on-screen menus are well designed, although I did notice that the capition turns off the sound - but I just got the unit so maybe that's a user error.<br />I got a refurb'd unit on a on-line auction...but it is making the humming noise, however mine makes it only when turned on.  I'm thinking of trying to see if something is vibrating or if its an electrical noise by messing with it.  This unit does produce a lot of heat, about on par with a receiver that is being driven reasonably hard.  I could barely hold my hand on top of it as one part was very warm.  There are some sizable looking heatsinks on some components inside, so apparently they tried to design to deal with it.<br />You can get a programmable \\"learning\\" style (not \\"universal\\") remote here on Amazon and at Rat Shack to minimize your remote glut.<br />This works great, if I could quell the idling noise.<br />Slope