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I have purposely not bought an HD TV set yet since I was
waiting for more local stations to convert as well as
waiting for prices to come down on Plasma sets. Lately
the price on Plasma sets has made me consider upgrading
to an HD set. But here is my situation. I currently
have analog TV cable which is actually quite good. I
do not have any cable boxes and do not plan on adding
any. I considered keeping my current analog cable and
using an antenna to pickup the local HD channels. But
I noticed that most/some new sets only have 1 RF cable jack
on them. So how would I use both my existing analog cable
and add a antenna for the local HD channels? Some sort of
switch box? I don't much care for that idea since that
would probably affect the quality/signal of my analog cable.Any suggestions??
Thanks
Follow Ups:
I was in a very similar situation. I was/am getting Comcast's analog service without a box. I got a HDTV that has a digital tuner (QAM) in addition to the regular analog tuner. I've got the coaxal from cable going directly to my TV. I get aal of Comcast's analog channels, plus all of my local digital/HD channels at no extra charge. I beleive that cable is required to supply you with your local channels. My set also has a seperate input for an antennae, which I use, but since I'm in a vally, my reception is only "OK"-I don't get PBS well. When it does work, its a better picture than what cable gives me.
To do:
1)check the TVs you are looking at, to see if they have seperate inputs for cable and an antenna.
2)If not, you can get a switcher most likely.
3)If your new TV has a QAM tuner, let it do a scan to see if it will pick up your locals from cable.
4)If you do #3, you may pick up a few other channels as well. I get a dozen or so music channels, as well as an occational VOD channel-usually whatever what my neighbors are watching(which apparently is a fair amount of porn).
5) if 3 and 4 don't work, get an antenna.
HTH,
Jack
I am curious to see if I can receive the HD channels through
my existing cable. I have Time Warner with all of the analog
tiers, but none of their cable boxes. I know that you need
to have their box to receive/decode most of their digital
cable channels. The TV I am looking at has the QAM tuner
built in so I am curious to see if I will receive them
from my existing cable. I guess it boils down to whether
TWC is putting the local HD channels in some other digital
channel assignment that only their box will decode or
in their normal assigned HDTV channel slot.
There really is no reason for them not to allow the locals to come through via a digital signal. I'm sure they know there are people like us that don't use a box. Like I said, i think they are required to give you your locals. Be aware, that they will ot be where you expect them though, but you'll find them. Mine are spots like 103.1, 105.3, 108.11, 64.3 etc.
Jack
"If you do #3, you may pick up a few other channels as well. I get a dozen or so music channels, as well as an occational VOD channel-usually whatever what my neighbors are watching(which apparently is a fair amount of porn)."
STOP PIGGY-BACKING OFF MY TV!!!!
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