divxhacker

An easier way to use one remote for recording would be to get a Panasonic DMR-EZ (27, 28, 47, 48) even a broken one on eBay with a bad DVD drive or busted video tape would be great for just watching both digital and analog.

YitzHandel

Yes - multicast is what I meant
Yeah - I guess it would need to tune all the stations at once.
I could imagine a co-op where everybody got their $40 x 2 coupons and then made all the stations and then piped it through an analog cable. Oh well.

And I just got a DVR instead of trying to get my Replay to work with it all - back in the day I loved my Replay because I'd upload shows and burn them to DVD. Less needed in the days of Hulu, network streaming shows, NetFlix, etc.

I haven't hooked up to my long-ignored roof antenna yet. Using rabbit ears, I notice once the signal is <65%, I get missed frames / sputtered signal. I prefer snow to that.

divxhacker

Ugh. I've seen that mess. Some boxes and DVRs have a large memory buffer that attempts to recover the missing data by checking the image stream's past 3 seconds, and reconstructs the image stream from the data. Less sputtering, only a few off-color pixels that vanish quickly.

A lot of boxes out there cut out a lot of the memory, unfortunately.

Piggie

I wonder if that is the bigger difference in my Toshiba TV (circa 2005 design) and the DTVPal Plus I hooked to it. You can't go by signal level as the Toshiba shows the UHF with higher numbers than the DTVPal Plus. But the opposite on VHF, having higher numbers than the Toshiba.

Bottom line is the drops on VHF are mush less offensive on the DTVPal Plus than the internal Toshiba tuner.

One thing tht amazed me when I took it out of the box was how much smaller a DTVPal Plus is than an Insignia. My Insignia doesn't have analog pass through, is why I bought a Pal Plus. I actually use the Pal Plus for digital pass through, as the internal tuner does widescreen broadcasts better than the Pal Plus that wasn't even designed to hook to a widescreen TV.