[Grovenet] Digital Electronics

[Katie Allnutt]

Good question.
What does it do if your TV is not an HD TV?
As I understand it, HD TVs are all digital, but I don't know if that  
means simply they have a HD tuner built into them or if it means they  
have additional stuff.

What does an analog TV do with a digital signal?
The ultimate question seems to be this...in Feb when all signals are  
digital is my TV useless because it can't filter out one digital  
signal from another and that is why it needs the box? Or does my TV  
need the box because it needs the signal converted back to analog to  
process it into a picture.  (On the converters you have to leave your  
regular TV on channel 3 (or 4) as you do with a VCR.)

When I posed this to the smartest guy in the house, he says that if  
the signal going into the old TV is not in analog form, it won't  
recognize it enough to convert it to a picture. It only works with  
waves and digits are a foreign language.
The old TV tuner just picks out which wave(s) to send along for  
processing but it still has to be a wave. A digital tuner alone is  
not sufficient for Feb '09.

Katie




On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:25 AM, chuck wrote:

> So Katie,
>
> Would a HD TV Tuner work in place of your converter box?  I belive  
> there
> may be one floating around
> looking for a home.
>
> chuck
>
> Katie Allnutt wrote:
>> That makes sense to me because digital tuners are different than high
>> definition digital tuners.
>>
>> So when we bought our converter, it does not pick up 2.1 because that
>> is a high def  digital signal and the box is just a regular digital
>> tuner.
>>
>> That also explains why channel 8 had problems holding the picture and
>> sound. It was getting too much high def signal for the little box's
>> regular digital memory to process.
>>
>> Katie
>>
>>
>>
>
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