Digital TV Reception
My motorhome doe not have the new digital televisions and I ran into the problem of not being able to receive signal to my televisions when staying at RV parks with newer cable systems. Don't know if...
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bigdogger wrote:
You should be able to tune in the cable stations fine provided two conditions are met.
1. Your Television is new enough to have an input called "Cable" or something similar. It would have to be a pretty old television not to have that capability.
2. The cable system at the RV park is not scrambled. If it Qa which would require you use a box provided by the cable TV provider. This is uncommon at the current time, but may become much more common as the major cable companies are rapidly moving to a 100% scrambled system that will require a converter box. This is a business move motivated by the fact that a lot of cable signals get stolen and the fact that with a converter box they can get you to buy all sorts of pay per view movies and events.
Otherwise, it is probably operator error. Things like the cable isn't correctly run to your television coax input. Your antenna amplifier is "on". You are not scanning for channels while your television is in the proper mode, etc.
X2, and my old tube type TVs worked fine on cable with my cable box (scrambled cable) so I gave away 2 of those converter boxes when you could get them for nothing with the coupon. The converter box would have only allowed me to get digial tv over the air, which I had no interest in. But I agree with the others, get a new TV, they're really cheap now.
