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Jester
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Location: Villa Park Ilinois
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject: Conect OTA to CRT |
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HI!
I have what is probably a stupid question, how do I connect an antenna cable ( hd digital) to a CRT sony 1272 WITHOUT a cable box and get HD ?
Seems simple enough yet I cant seem to get my mind around it.
Thanks
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Tim in Phoenix
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Hello
The cable signal, the one channel out of many that you want to watch, needs to be selected by a tuner or cable box or satellite receiver; these are not capabilities found built into commercial projectors. With the switch to all-digital tv transmission, no crt can do what you ask.
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jkruger
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
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Jester
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Location: Villa Park Ilinois
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I have an antenna. Its wired and everything  I am ditching cable so now I want to use that antenna. I also use a HTPC so a tuner card may fit the bill.
If not the HTPC is there a OTS digital tuner that will output 720 p over hdmi?
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jkruger
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The sir-t165 does HDMI but the ts160 does not. it has dvi outputs
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AnalogRocks
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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blue_z
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Location: So Calif
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| Jester wrote: | | I have an antenna. Its wired and everything I am ditching cable so now I want to use that antenna. I also use a HTPC so a tuner card may fit the bill. ? |
Hi there
I use an ATSC tuner in the HTPC to deliver HD content to my PJ, and think that is the easiest path. Also you get recording and time-shift capability as a bonus.
Your TV reception may dictate how good a tuner you'll need. Even though I'm 36 miles from the transmitters and the antenna is in the attic, there is still a good, clean TV signal. So every PCI or USB tuner I've tried has worked well for me. Even a $10 tuner (after rebate) (Kworld ATSC-120) works okay (but took a bit of tweaking).
For software, watchhdtv is free and requires minimal resources (compared to other programs). (Of course your video card and/or CPU needs to be able to process the MPEG stream for output to the PJ). If your HTPC is already Vista based, then upgrading to Win 7 is a possibility. The Win 7 Media Center is rather complete, and easy to install and use (the Kworld 120 installed under Win7 without any problems, unlike under WinXP).
Regards
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AFryia
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| jkruger wrote: | | The sir-t165 does HDMI but the ts160 does not. it has dvi outputs |
Viewsonic HD12 OTA tuner here, running YrPbPr component to the PJ.
It has DVI out but that's reserved for the HTPC which also has an OTA HD tuner and a cable tuner.
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Jester
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Location: Villa Park Ilinois
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Sooo it seems the HTPC tuner is the option for me. Thanks for all the reply's and the help you guys are always a font of knowledge.
Jester
Scott
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