LCD HDTV do i need a converter box and antenna?
I have an lcd hdtv by magnavox. I do not have cable and want to be able to watch tv. Do i need an antenna or just the converter box to pick up local channels? I am a little confused on what exactly the converter box is able to do.
If your TV is an HDTV (and not a “HD ready” TV), you just need to attach a TV antenna to it and have the TV scan for digital antenna channels.
(Hint: if there is no place in the TVs menu to scan for digital channels, it doesn’t have a digital tuner and isn’t a “HDTV”.)
A HDTV already has a digital (ATSC) tuner built into it. A “HD ready” TV doesn’t have a digital tuner built into it and would need a converter box or HD tuner to receive digital broadcasts.
A converter box is connected between an antenna and older TVs. The box takes the digital signals that the antenna picks up (ATSC) and “converts” one of them to the older analog type (NTSC) that non-digital TVs can understand.
The only reason that you might want to connect a converter box to a HDTV is if the converter has a better tuner than the one that’s built into the HDTV.
What kind of antenna you need depends on where you live. In North America all TV antennas can pick up digital broadcasts, so feel free to attach any old TV antenna that you have and give it a try.
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