patagoniadave
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2014
- Posts
- 85
I am looking for advice on the Channel Master http://www.channelmaster.com/Clear_QAM_Broadcast_Tuner_Box_p/cm-7001.htm has anyone else had experience with it? Is there a better brand?
What I would really like is something akin to their dvr tuner, but for some reason, they did not put a QAM tuner in that box. Does anyone know if there is a dvr that tunes over the air channels as well as QAM? I have been researching for two days and my eyes are bleeding. I have ruled out Tivo, unless I can find one with a lifetime subscription. More research....
A little background if it helps. We are replacing our primary television, which doubles as my computer monitor. The trailer was built pre-flatscreen era, so the mounting area is limited to a 32" television. I toyed with tearing out all the millwork, and re-building it to accommodate a large screen, but the cost was too high, so we compramised, and just widened the existing hole to 32"
I did gobs and gobs of research on tv vs monitor, 21:9 vs 16:9 ultra hd vs all the other things. Curved screens flat screens, virtual screens. I settled on a high end monitor, designed specifically for CAD, which is what I do for a living. It even has built in speakers that will pass muster until I tackle the surround sound. The main reason for going monitor over tv is that it will have drivers designed to talk to the laptop, and from all the reading I did, will have a clearer screen, especially sitting up close like I do for work. The other issues for me when deciding was how to get sound out from a monitor when using it as a tv, and how to get cable into it. Turns out modern tv's don't have coax inputs anymore, so I have to get a coax converter regardless. As far as sound goes, happy accidental discovery. The stereo receiver I bought a couple years back has hdmi ports. Turns out you can plug all of your hdmi devices, computer, xbox, cable box, into the back, and run an hdmi cable from it to the computer screen. It passes the video signal to the monitor, and splits the sound out to the speakers attached to it. Awesome. Not sure if it is downsampling the video quality, but I will look into that later.
So, new computer monitor, and I need to get tv to it. We mostly netflix anyway, but I like to watch the local news and weather sometimes, and if we are staying at a park that has cable, I like to hook up to that. Not to mention football. I need a device that will tune the over the ai channels, and park cable channels, and send them via hdmi to the monitor. The channel master seems to fit the bill, but then I got greedy and started thinking about dvr.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
What I would really like is something akin to their dvr tuner, but for some reason, they did not put a QAM tuner in that box. Does anyone know if there is a dvr that tunes over the air channels as well as QAM? I have been researching for two days and my eyes are bleeding. I have ruled out Tivo, unless I can find one with a lifetime subscription. More research....
A little background if it helps. We are replacing our primary television, which doubles as my computer monitor. The trailer was built pre-flatscreen era, so the mounting area is limited to a 32" television. I toyed with tearing out all the millwork, and re-building it to accommodate a large screen, but the cost was too high, so we compramised, and just widened the existing hole to 32"
I did gobs and gobs of research on tv vs monitor, 21:9 vs 16:9 ultra hd vs all the other things. Curved screens flat screens, virtual screens. I settled on a high end monitor, designed specifically for CAD, which is what I do for a living. It even has built in speakers that will pass muster until I tackle the surround sound. The main reason for going monitor over tv is that it will have drivers designed to talk to the laptop, and from all the reading I did, will have a clearer screen, especially sitting up close like I do for work. The other issues for me when deciding was how to get sound out from a monitor when using it as a tv, and how to get cable into it. Turns out modern tv's don't have coax inputs anymore, so I have to get a coax converter regardless. As far as sound goes, happy accidental discovery. The stereo receiver I bought a couple years back has hdmi ports. Turns out you can plug all of your hdmi devices, computer, xbox, cable box, into the back, and run an hdmi cable from it to the computer screen. It passes the video signal to the monitor, and splits the sound out to the speakers attached to it. Awesome. Not sure if it is downsampling the video quality, but I will look into that later.
So, new computer monitor, and I need to get tv to it. We mostly netflix anyway, but I like to watch the local news and weather sometimes, and if we are staying at a park that has cable, I like to hook up to that. Not to mention football. I need a device that will tune the over the ai channels, and park cable channels, and send them via hdmi to the monitor. The channel master seems to fit the bill, but then I got greedy and started thinking about dvr.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.