Antenna question...
Hey all... Trying to get my antenna to work with a led flat screen... As I understand it, the tv is 'digital' so I don't need a converter box... I have an old (2003) batwing crank-up... I'...
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donn0128 wrote:
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Don, Now I understand your confusion....
Antennas, As I said, do not care if it the signal is AM, FM, Digital, Analog, Other.
HOWEVER, you said "How come there are so many digital converters"
That is easy.. The RECEIVER (Tevision) Does care Older televisions, like the Toshiba I'm watching as I type, want a mix of Am and FM analog in a format called NTSC (Never twice same color.. er, national television standards committee). The TV can not deal with the modern ATSC (American Television Standards) signal, it does not know how to process.
The digital adapter/converter simply decodes the ATSC signal, and re-transmits it as an NTSC signal on chan 3 or 4 (VHF LOW) or sends it out over A/V to my DVR's so that they can properly receive the signal and process it for my viewing pleasure.
Antennas work at the RF end (radio frequency) of the business, the digital adapters work at the "convert to audio/video" level, Same as the TV does with NTSC signals.
This is why if you get a new widescreen, You do NOT need the adapters (normally) the can process ATSC (And NTSC as well) signals. And usually a few other things as well (HDMI, VGA/(E/X/SVGA) and A/V)
Oh, you might also ask how come there are antennas advertised as DIGITAL on the market... Well.... It adds to the price, I have seen some of those antennas,,, Both in the box and layed out on a table after someone took 'em apart... And they are identical to the same antenna sold 40 years ago back before "Digital" was even a twinkle in a broadcast engineer's eye.
