Posted by RalphWSiegler
on June 12, 2009, 4:02 pm
As the U.S. switches to digital TV today, there are a few points worth remembering.
Some of the digital stations that have been broadcasting for months will change their frequencies today. In my area I had to rescan after noon to again receive three "subchannels" of a major station that had changed.
Certain types of low-power stations aren't required to go digital at all. Where I live, there are two low power (one is 375KW, not too weak at all!) stations continuing to broadcast analog (one of them also will have digital channel), so it turns out old TVs aren't necessarily useless as one will carry a major news network during the normal news hours.
So don't chuck that old B&W beater in the garage before scanning around tomorrow to see if any analog stations are still lingering.
Since the other (non-news) local low power station is of interest in my household, I put a splitter in my antenna line, with one leg of the Y output going to the digital converter box (which then goes to a video input on my old TV), and the other leg I ran right to the antenna jack of my TV. That way we're hybrid digital/analog TV creatures. Another way to be both analog and digital capable for an older TV is to buy a converter box with "analog bypass" feature.
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