[BC] Should We Now Wait on Digital-only TV?

[Glen Kippel]

Well, I recently got the Zenith DTV box, and it seems to work pretty well
with just a rabbit-ears tucked away behind the TV.  I got the one with
analog passthrough, but I find that I am not using that function.  Possibly
finding a better antenna location will help.  I send the A/V output of the
box to my AUX2 TV input, and this is obviously not an RF passthrough. The
picture quality is better this way.  Yes, occasionally there is some
multipath on a couple of channels that causes the signal to break up.  To
get the stations that are still on analog, I split the antenna to the DTV
box and a VCR (which has a more sensitive tuner than does the TV) and feed
that to the RF input on the TV.  Thus, I can tape an analog program while
watching a digital channel if I want to.  There are presently 8 digital
signals with quite a few more CPs applied for.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Richard Fry <rfry at adams.net> wrote:

>
> Recently I purchased and installed in my home a Toshiba DVD recorder having
> analog / DTV r-f input and demods.
>
> Normally I am hooked up to Comcast analog cable, and view same on several
> flat-screen CRT and LCD displays -- which look very good at any normal
> viewing distance.  Suits me, anyway, and I'm rather hard to please.
>
> Just to report that this DVD recorder flawlessly receives every one of the
> nine OTA DTV programs here using only a set of indoor rabbit ears from an
> old TV set of mine, with no antenna adjustment needed between channels.
>
> I also have an Insignia DTV converter purchased with a gov't credit that
> can do this, but not quite as well as does the Toshiba DVD setup.
>
> So maybe all is not as bleak for everyone as has been given in some of the
> news reports.
>
> RF
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