n7qvu said:
WOW. Sometimes I'm dense, but I'm really trying to figure what is being said here.
If your TV doesn't have a digital tuner, then WHAT parts make it a digital TV?
I will make it easy for you... For oh, at least 20 years, many TV's have been "DIGITAL" but the encryption format is QAM (I know the Q is Quadature and M is modulation, not sure what the A is) This is the digital format used on CABLE TV.
Over the air is ATSC (American Television Standards Comittee) and completly different, Requires a different decoder. Dang few televisons are upgradable to a new digital format (You need like an Amiga 2000 with a TV tuner front end to do that, and alas, they don't make the Amiga any more). (The Amiga 2000 is a computer by the way.. One that puts the PC (Poor Computer) to shame, but alas, Commodore blew the marketing so......).
(I used to sell them)
Thus, if, like me, you have an older "Digital TV" you still need a new Digital converter to watch OVER THE AIR digital TV.
I should point out some other mis-conceptions.
LCD (or LED or Plasma) These are almost always Digital but see above, the TV in front of me is an LCD but it is not ATSC compatable without the adapter.
Flat Screen.. Yes, The TV in front of me is also a flat screen.
NOW: If your TV is HD (Wide screen) I do not know if it is ATSC compatable or not, my LCD flat screen digital CABLE ready TV is an older NTSC format. But I do know they were advertising HDTV's before the ATSC standard became official.