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TechBits: DTV Converter Box Setup
posted 10:21 pm Wed August 27, 2008 - Birmingham, AL
reporter: Thomas Lower
posted by: Thomas Lower
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ABC 33/40 has gotten many calls from people who need help setting up their DTV converter boxes. It's very simple on most boxes. We start with the connections. You should find five connections: Antenna in, TV out, right audio, left audio, and video out. Antenna in brings in the digital signal. Simply plug your antenna into this jack. TV out takes the newly converted analog signal to your TV. Run a coaxial cable from here to your TV. It's that simple. You can use the other three outputs to send a singal to another devices such as another TV.
Just remember, there's no tuner in the converter box- all channel switching is done inside your TV. If you have a digital tuner, you don't need a converter box.
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ABC 33/40 Talkback: TechBits: DTV Converter Box Setup
Keith Lake
9:14 am on 08/28/08
In your story about digital converters you said, "there's no tuner in the converter box- all channel switching is done inside your TV. That is wrong.
I have, not one, but two converter boxes and here is why -
Ever since I bought my Commodore 64 computer years ago and I realized that the
monitor was just that; a video monitor that you could hook any kind of video source to, I was always on the lookout for an affordable TV tuner to hook up so that I could watch TV on my computer monitor. I could have hooked it to a VCR and used the VCR's tuner but I wanted something smaller, more compact.
Well, I never could find what I wanted and it's just as well because now it would be obsolete. Only now they've come out with the Digital Converter Boxes which are really just (wait for it...ta daaa) TV tuners! Digital TV Tuners!
So I hopped on that right away. I got one, not for my Commodore monitor (which I still have) but for my portable DVD player. Now I can watch TV on it.
I liked it so much, I went back and got another one for the other older TVs in the house. Now I can always use those TVs with an antenna if I want to and they won't be obsolete.
I like having the flexibility.
If the converter boxes use the TV's internal tuner as you say, then it would not work with my DVD player because it doesn't have a built in tuner.
The converter comes with it's own remote which you use to change channels. (If you had a really old TV with manual tunning, that would be an added bonus)
I suspect that you never even bothered to hook one up and try it you would have realised this.
Keith Lake
I have, not one, but two converter boxes and here is why -
Ever since I bought my Commodore 64 computer years ago and I realized that the
monitor was just that; a video monitor that you could hook any kind of video source to, I was always on the lookout for an affordable TV tuner to hook up so that I could watch TV on my computer monitor. I could have hooked it to a VCR and used the VCR's tuner but I wanted something smaller, more compact.
Well, I never could find what I wanted and it's just as well because now it would be obsolete. Only now they've come out with the Digital Converter Boxes which are really just (wait for it...ta daaa) TV tuners! Digital TV Tuners!
So I hopped on that right away. I got one, not for my Commodore monitor (which I still have) but for my portable DVD player. Now I can watch TV on it.
I liked it so much, I went back and got another one for the other older TVs in the house. Now I can always use those TVs with an antenna if I want to and they won't be obsolete.
I like having the flexibility.
If the converter boxes use the TV's internal tuner as you say, then it would not work with my DVD player because it doesn't have a built in tuner.
The converter comes with it's own remote which you use to change channels. (If you had a really old TV with manual tunning, that would be an added bonus)
I suspect that you never even bothered to hook one up and try it you would have realised this.
Keith Lake
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