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Originally Posted by jr_tech
The novelty here would be that the ATSC converter could be mounted out of sight (and out of mind) inside the TV, while the digital channels would be tuned with the UHF tuner.
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This is definitely a fun concept, but it would not work as described even if/when the UHF converter was correctly tuned to an ATSC channel, unfortunately. The catch is that ATSC stations have digital codes as part of the signals, to identify the main channel as well as any additional channels in the signal (the 4-1, 4-2 and so on you may have seen on a digital TV or converter). Normally, this information is stored for each channel during the "channel scan" typically done with a new TV set. Even if some digital tuners can re-check for these codes each time a channel is selected or re-selected, almost certainly none can do a search "on the fly" when a signal is lost (such as when turning the knob on the UHF converter in the proposed setup). It would be cool if they could, though.