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Originally Posted by joemama99
I like the clunk-clunk of channel changing motors better myself.Besides,when it lands on an active channel you actually get a picture immediately- instead of having to wait while a digital signal gets locked and buffered!
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I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you trying to use your television's own tuner (without a converter box ahead of it) to receive DTV signals? If so, it won't work. A converter box is
always required to receive digital TV signals on an analog set. What you're describing is a throwback to the analog era, when the TV's own tuner processed the station's signals. DTV doesn't work that way -- it never has. Even if you are within spitting distance (!) of your area's TV stations' transmitters, you will get nothing but snow on your screen (and hear nothing but white noise in the sound) on every channel, if you are simply using an antenna connected directly to your TV.
Please forgive me if the foregoing sounds elementary, but I get the idea from the wording of your post that you are trying to receive DTV these days the same way people had received analog TV the last six decades, before all-digital television became law last June. Again, it doesn't work like that anymore. Today's television signals are almost exclusively ATSC digital (except for translators, low-power and class-A television stations which are still analog and do not need to convert to digital at this time) and, without a converter box between your antenna and TV (if you are in fact using an older analog set), your set will act as if there is no antenna connected, even if you have a super-high-power fringe area antenna 50 feet high with a mast-mounted preamplifier. You must use a converter box and set your TV to either channel 3 or 4 (whichever is not used locally), then leave the set's own tuner on that channel and select your channels, etc. at the box or using the remote.