| Author |
Message |
AnalogRocks
Forum Moderator
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:33 am Post subject: OT: Recommendations for ATSC/QAM tuner box |
|
|
A couple of week's ago I set my G/F up with a projector. Now I want to add OTA and QUAM tunning to it. Who make's a good tuner that has RGBHV/VGA out put that I can plug into the PC1271 swirtcher?
I was looking at this one PHDV ATSC/QAM tuner. Anyone have one? Good or bad?
What is everybody running for an OTA/digital cable tuner?
_________________
Tech support for nothing
CRT.
HD done right!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Heywood Jablome
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 1548
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: OT: Recommendations for ATSC/QAM tuner box |
|
|
| AnalogRocks wrote: | A couple of week's ago I set my G/F up with a projector. Now I want to add OTA and QUAM tunning to it. Who make's a good tuner that has RGBHV/VGA out put that I can plug into the PC1271 swirtcher?
I was looking at this one PHDV ATSC/QAM tuner. Anyone have one? Good or bad?
What is everybody running for an OTA/digital cable tuner? |
Watching this thread with great interest...
There is a Samsung (I think) 4600A hotel-style tuner that MUST have an IR remote receiver to work that typically go for $25-$50 on eBay. These require a remote-hack and other fiddling but are otherwise reported as being viable... I've not pulled the trigger for want of time.
_________________
"Those countries which lag behind in industry, in the application of mechanics and technical chemistry, in the careful selection and utilization of natural products, where the respect for such activities does not permeate all classes of society, will unfailingly decline in prosperity. They will sink faster when neighbor states, with an energetic exchange between science and industry, go forward with renewed vitality."
-- Baron Alexander von Humboldt: 1769-1859
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BradTheAggie
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 651
Location: Oak Point, Texas
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
You can find older DirecTV/ATSC tuners on ebay or craigslist real cheap. I bought a Samsung SIR-TS360 a few years ago for around $50 including shipping, then used a VGA to 5BNC breakout to hook it up my scaler. The scaler passes the 720p or 1080i signal through, works great...
_________________
(bholman on the AVS forum)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
AnalogRocks
Forum Moderator
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I was reading about the SIR, I heard it's not a sensitive as some of the other unit's.
_________________
Tech support for nothing
CRT.
HD done right!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BradTheAggie
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 651
Location: Oak Point, Texas
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I cannot say how it's sensitivity compares with other models - I've also heard that the Sony DirecTV/ATSC tuners work very well. I can say that I am around 50 miles from the antenna farms in Cedar Hill (where everyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area has their broadcast towers), and I get excellent reception on all hidef channels. I do use a huge ChannelMaster outside antenna, and I am out in the country, with nothing between me and the towers.
_________________
(bholman on the AVS forum)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
AnalogRocks
Forum Moderator
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| BradTheAggie wrote: | | I cannot say how it's sensitivity compares with other models - I've also heard that the Sony DirecTV/ATSC tuners work very well. I can say that I am around 50 miles from the antenna farms in Cedar Hill (where everyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area has their broadcast towers), and I get excellent reception on all hidef channels. I do use a huge ChannelMaster outside antenna, and I am out in the country, with nothing between me and the towers. |
Thanks, Brad. That sounds like ideal conditions.
_________________
Tech support for nothing
CRT.
HD done right!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
AnalogRocks
Forum Moderator
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
|
| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
Anyone else wana throw some good/bad model's at me? ( no not literaly ) 
_________________
Tech support for nothing
CRT.
HD done right!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lovebohn
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 181
Location: Wisconsin
|
| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
I use an RCA DTC-100, it must be a first or second generation tuner but works well. My PC tuner card pulls in a signal better, but not by much and I working with 45-70 mile stations. The Samsung also has other inputs that will output scaled to 720 or 1080 RGBHV.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BobNelson
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
Posts: 58
Location: Green Valley, AZ
|
| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: DTC210 |
|
|
Don't go with a RCA DTC 210. It works great, but it has to be hooked up to the dish once a day and the reset button pushed or it will not work. My new H20 works well with the new Direct TV HD channels, but macro blocks at times with the old ones and with OTA. I have a two position switch for the dish so I can re boot the DTC 210 when I am going to use it for OTA.
_________________
Martinized and Parkerized 9500LC
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Heywood Jablome
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 1548
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I actually have the TS360, but did not mention it since its' not QAM.
Its' ATSC output looks very good (had to use it as my primary receiver a couple times when cable went out during football games, and my guests commented that OTA looked better than cable.)
In my environment it pulls too few channels for my taste... 30 - 45 miles with no Texas line-of-sight! I'm in SE Massachusetts and there are plenty of hills between me and the towers in the highlands west of Boston.
What are the odds that these subsidized $40 OTA receivers also have QAM? 
_________________
"Those countries which lag behind in industry, in the application of mechanics and technical chemistry, in the careful selection and utilization of natural products, where the respect for such activities does not permeate all classes of society, will unfailingly decline in prosperity. They will sink faster when neighbor states, with an energetic exchange between science and industry, go forward with renewed vitality."
-- Baron Alexander von Humboldt: 1769-1859
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
AnalogRocks
Forum Moderator
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The subsidized tuner's? I'd say slim and none. I was at Radio Shack a while back. They had on their rack a digital tuner, cheap, however it only offered SD output's, S-video, composite and RF on ch 3 or 4. I guess that cater's to the lowest commond J6P type.
_________________
Tech support for nothing
CRT.
HD done right!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Heywood Jablome
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 1548
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The $49.00 model at WallyWorld has only RF and composite out.. not even S-Video. And 2 ch audio.
_________________
"Those countries which lag behind in industry, in the application of mechanics and technical chemistry, in the careful selection and utilization of natural products, where the respect for such activities does not permeate all classes of society, will unfailingly decline in prosperity. They will sink faster when neighbor states, with an energetic exchange between science and industry, go forward with renewed vitality."
-- Baron Alexander von Humboldt: 1769-1859
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
AnalogRocks
Forum Moderator
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 26706
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yep. That'll get most people up and running.
Just as an aside. The worst thing I ever did at my Mom's house was to hook her VCR up via Composite. She kept calling me and telling me her TV was on CH 3. Why couldn't she see the video?
Gotta keep it somple for alot of people.
_________________
Tech support for nothing
CRT.
HD done right!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
MikeEby
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Posts: 5237
Location: Osceola, Indiana
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
