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Originally Posted by trinescope
The set top HDTV tuner I bought a year ago has this capability. It has HDMI, composite, and NTSC outputs, and I did connect an RF modulator to it once just for an experiment and displayed DTV channels on an old black and white set. The stuff is on the market as we speak, but probably won't have an RF output for your older TVs, so a modulator might be needed. Supposedly regular outdoor antennas will work fine; rabbit ears really don't; I'm stuck with rabbit ears due to being in an apartment, and the signals will just cut out at times and it's really annoying. Remember, the NTSC phaseout was supposed to have happened already, but the date keeps getting changed.
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My main concern at this point is whether or not a standard VCR can be connected to either a modulated output or a straight video line output from an HDTV converter to be able to record off-the-air for timeshifting and future watching with a present-day VCR and TV. 90% of my family's TV viewing is done via timeshifting, taking a tape from a VCR fed from an outdoor antenna upstairs to a VCR-fed TV downstairs that uses only rabbit ears.
I've yet to see any of these converter boxes available. I've got at least 5 HDTV channels in my area, but the converters are so far vaporware.
Tom