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DTV on EDTV w/o ATSC -- Help!
by asonofgod - 5/3/08 5:21 AMApparently I lagged behind as the television technologies races ahead of me.
SPECS: I have what I am told is an EDTV, it is a JVC AV-36F703 and has 850 resolution on an 8:3 aspect screen. It has both NTSC and BTSC tuners but NOT an ATSC tuner.
QUESTION: I live in Oklahoma and satellite TV goes out when severe weather rolls through, so I always keep an antenna close by. My question is this - Do I need to by an external ATSC tuner, or a converter box? Since it is capable of displaying digital quality picture, I don't want to have to settle for analog quality.
I'm not sure how well I put that question, or if I provided enough info... but if someone could, I really could use some help.
Thanks in advance,
-Jared
You're gonna need. . .
by Coryphaeus - 5/3/08 5:37 AM In reply to: DTV on EDTV w/o ATSC -- Help! by asonofgodthe ATSC tuner or the "set top box" when local stations stop broadcasting the analog signal in less than a year. I got two of these http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8343230 With my forty dollar rebate card from the government you can see the final cost.
But if you have satellite you can run your antenna through the satellite receiver and it will do the same as the STB. I do.
Now.
An EDTV will not display an HD picture in true HD. HD is defined as either 720 or 1080 lines of resolution. EDTV = 480P, which means you get an improved analog resolution.
Here is a good tutoral http://www.projectorcentral.com/video_signals.htm
OK... so...
by asonofgod - 5/3/08 7:55 AM In reply to: You're gonna need. . . by CoryphaeusSo the set-top-box (converters) do not lower the resolution from digital to analog? Is there such a thing as simply a ATSC tuner apart from a converter box?
Thanks for the tip about running the antenna through the DirectTV box, I'll try that.
Set top box. . .
by Coryphaeus - 5/3/08 9:20 AM In reply to: OK... so... by asonofgodDepending on the model, the lower end receive the digital signal and convert it to analog. RF (coax) and composite, Yellow, Red, White cords. The upper end models receive the digital signal and send it out digital using an HDMI connector and component, Y, Pb, Pr. Also the analog connections are there.
Your TV will downconvert any digital HD signal (720 or 1080) to 480-I lines. But your TV is Enhanced meaning it converts the 480-I to 480-P. So for now, you don't need one of the high end boxes. If you upgrade TVs to HD, then the high end box is what you will want, and an HD satellite receiver.
I have Dish Network HD with four HD receivers. All my TVs, five, are full HD. I just got the boxes in case the satellite falls out of the sky.
Can you give me the model number of the TV set and Sat box?
by gabereyes - 5/4/08 10:45 PM In reply to: DTV on EDTV w/o ATSC -- Help! by asonofgodand the higher end converter box with component video will give you a better picture on a EDTV.
So you will want the HD converter box not the standard digital converter box.
do not look at the numbers 1080i, 720p, and 480p, the fact is the better the source and connection the better the picture is.
Gabe
Absolutely!
by asonofgod - 5/5/08 6:36 AM In reply to: Can you give me the model number of the TV set and Sat box? by gabereyesThe TV is a JVC AV-36F703
The Sat box is a Direct-TV MDL:R15 MFR: 500 - it's a Direct-TV Plus box.
Also, Thanks everybody for all the help thus far... I followed the TV stuff for a while but have been in college and just lost my "connection" if you will.
Ok
by gabereyes - 5/5/08 9:11 PM In reply to: Absolutely! by asonofgodso you do not have a EDTV this is a Standard TV with component video inputs.
you can get a HDTV converter box for it and hook it up component video and set it to 480i output, and this will give you a better picture then the standard atsc digital box, but not by much.
you might just get a regular digital box, for 40-60 dollars, the HD box is about 150-200 dollars, and this wouldnt help the picture too much.
good luck
gabe
Thanks Gabe
by asonofgod - 5/6/08 6:21 AM In reply to: Ok by gabereyesI want to say thank you for help me out everybody. It seems the internet is full of misinformation and I should have just come here to get help in the first place...
I guess I should have believed what I thought I knew before I went searching the internet and being mislead about some things.
Ok. Standard def tv, regular 'ol converter box... Thanks again for getting me clear on all of this.
Oh yeah, I never could get my DirectTV box to work as a converter box... I think I'm missing something here.
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