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All four boxes work by connecting rabbit ears or another externalantenna to the back of the box and then connecting the box to yourtelevision with either RCA cables (yellow, red, white) or a coaxialcable (combo tv box). Each comes with a remote.

    Although the switch won't happen until Feb. 17, 2009, hooking up aconverter box to your analog TV now may give you betterover-the-air reception, more channel choices and some other neatfeatures, like an on-screen program guide. And the boxes may be inlimited supply the closer we get.

    I tested the boxes with a 10-year-old Panasonic TV/VCR combo andwith both an inexpensive RadioShack VHF/UHF indoor TV antenna and amore expensive RCA flat multi-directional antenna. There wasn't aton of difference in the reception I got on the boxes, and usingthe RCA cables generally provided a slightly clearer picture thanusing a coaxial cable.

    Placing the equipment near the window, each box tuned between 30and 36 digital channels, including the networks, several channelsfrom local PBS affiliate WMFE, Spanish channels, educationalchannels and religious channels. The one exception was the twochannels from local