Hello -
I "see" now, thanks to your explanation ! Had me "going in a circle!"
I guess the total channel count during the 'trial' was only observed on the Converter { not connected to the Sony.}
Many thanks.
eli
DTV Transition - Can YOU Help? (Part 3)
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akirby
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The channel count for the "trial" was done at the neighbor's house on the Insignia converter box connected to the 1981 Sony tv. Pretty sure that 1981 model doesn't have an ATSC tuner.
The HD Sony TV was at Larry's house and the converter received more channels than the built in ATSC tuner on his Sony using the same antenna input.
The HD Sony TV was at Larry's house and the converter received more channels than the built in ATSC tuner on his Sony using the same antenna input.
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Larry Kenney
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I didn't realize that my post would be so confusing. LOL Akirby got it right.
The first channel count was done at the neighbor's home using the Insignia converter box on her old 1981 Sony. When connecting her converter box to my antennas and to my TV I got the same number of channels, but I cannot get all of these channels using the tuner in my one year old Sony XBR4. Several stations that the converter box receiver picks up and shows as having a "good signal", the TV tuner shows as "No Signal".
To make things more confusing, the newer Sony XBR4 receiver is much better than the one in my 7 year old Sony XBR2 CRT HDTV, so they are getting better and better all the time.
What I would like to see is a tuner that is as sensitive and as good working with multipath as the one used in the converter box in an HDTV! Maybe the newer TVs have them, I don't know.
Larry
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The first channel count was done at the neighbor's home using the Insignia converter box on her old 1981 Sony. When connecting her converter box to my antennas and to my TV I got the same number of channels, but I cannot get all of these channels using the tuner in my one year old Sony XBR4. Several stations that the converter box receiver picks up and shows as having a "good signal", the TV tuner shows as "No Signal".
To make things more confusing, the newer Sony XBR4 receiver is much better than the one in my 7 year old Sony XBR2 CRT HDTV, so they are getting better and better all the time.
What I would like to see is a tuner that is as sensitive and as good working with multipath as the one used in the converter box in an HDTV! Maybe the newer TVs have them, I don't know.
Larry
SF
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eliwhitney
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Tuners ..
Morning Larry -
It was just a "bad day" on my part .... it should have been obvious but I had a 'block' !
I would have certainly 'hoped' that your new XBR wouldn't have had anything but the very best available at the time ! And, I'd Never in a hundred years suspected a federal coupon Converter of definitely having a clearly better tuner ..... that's infuriating !
We can look forward to that next article re:"Tuners - better/worse" by Mr. LaMaestra.
Regards,
eli
It was just a "bad day" on my part .... it should have been obvious but I had a 'block' !
I would have certainly 'hoped' that your new XBR wouldn't have had anything but the very best available at the time ! And, I'd Never in a hundred years suspected a federal coupon Converter of definitely having a clearly better tuner ..... that's infuriating !
We can look forward to that next article re:"Tuners - better/worse" by Mr. LaMaestra.
Regards,
eli