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Recommended RGBHV television tuner

 
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UncleWill




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:21 pm    Post subject: Recommended RGBHV television tuner Reply with quote


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Looks like dad got FIOS while I was away at school a few years back. It's okay, but having to memorize the channels again is irritating. Plus, why are all the channels we DO NOT HAVE mixed in with the rest of them? Makes channel surfing meh.

Anywayze, lets get positive! So, thinking about an HDTV ariel tuner for the Electrohome. Would prefer an RGBHV output for simplicity. Recommendations?
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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

By the way, I am ALWAYS seeing spare DirectTV boxes at places. Can these only be used for satellite TV or do some possess the ability to pick up airwave TV too?
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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

With DirecTV, you can set the guide to show "Only channels I receive". It's not that way by default, but it can be set that way. You can also further customize the guide to un-tick more channels if that's what you want. I have mine all set that way. I'd be surprised if the FiOS boxes couldn't be configured the same way.

The only DirecTV box that wouldn't be annoying slow at this point is a Samsung SIR-TS360. There's also the Samsung SIR-TS160, but it's getting pretty damn old at this point. ATSC tuners were much improved over the next few years. One word of warning if you were to pick one of these up at a pawn shop or something: You do need a DirecTV access card - any DirecTV card - to get into the config menu to disable the DirecTV tuner. If it hasn't been disabled, and you don't have a card, it will just sit there with a blue screen that says, "Insert access card…" or something like that, with no way to exit.

Other than that, since VGA on ATSC tuners was pretty much gone by the mid-2000's, that will relegate you stuff that vintage - with really slow menus and guide.

You might be better off with a newer, cheap OTA receiver with HDMI out, and one of the Chinese HDMI-to-VGA converters. Just a thought.

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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PHD made a model. I can't speak to its reliability though. Mine half way died. I can say it tunes more channels than the Samsung Sat/ATSC tuners though.
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PostLink    Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AnalogRocks wrote:
PHD made a model. I can't speak to its reliability though. Mine half way died.


Yes, it only shows the bottom 1/2 of the picture. Very Happy
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PostLink    Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Curt Palme wrote:
AnalogRocks wrote:
PHD made a model. I can't speak to its reliability though. Mine half way died.


Yes, it only shows the bottom 1/2 of the picture. Very Happy


lol no, the onscreen menu stopped working

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