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Originally Posted by O-O
That's the tricky part of the so-called QAM tuners built into some TVs. Sure they'll let your TV pick up some local stations in HD from your cable provider, but to view any digital services from your cable company, you need to rent a box from them. Otherwise your just watching an analog signal on basic cable. The only REAL thing a digital TV or HDTV tuner does, is receive over-the-air signals from broadcast towers. Other than that, you could have basically bought a "digital ready" HDTV with an analog tuner and just used the cable company's converter to watch HD programming.  |
Perhaps I'm missing some very basic info here. My understanding is that all signals were converted to digital on/around 6-12-09, or before, and that the boxes are needed to convert the digital signal to an analog one for old TVs. So, if the cable is sending a digital signal, then why do you need a converter box for a digital TV?
Also,
HD, high definition, is different from
DTV, digital TV; no?
