Comments on: Is there a digital turner converter box that will work as good as a built in HDTV turner in HDTVs? http://digitalhdpro.com/is-there-a-digital-turner-converter-box-that-will-work-as-good-as-a-built-in-hdtv-turner-in-hdtvs/324/ Your Digital HDTV Resource Tue, 22 May 2012 02:50:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: wires http://digitalhdpro.com/is-there-a-digital-turner-converter-box-that-will-work-as-good-as-a-built-in-hdtv-turner-in-hdtvs/324/comment-page-1/#comment-420 wires Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:16:30 +0000 http://digitalhdpro.com/is-there-a-digital-turner-converter-box-that-will-work-as-good-as-a-built-in-hdtv-turner-in-hdtvs/324/#comment-420 Are you connecting your converter box to a cable TV service. It's not designed for that. You shouldn't need a converter box for cable serevice. It's designed to receive digital signals off the air and convert them to analog signals for a conventional TV. A digital converter box isn't designed to unscramble channels that are scrambled and won't do that. The converter box also changes the picture to analog mode for a conventional TV and won't look as good as the same picture displayed directly from it digital format on a hi-def TV. Some of the digital converter boxes and supposed to be more sensitive than others as far as receiving the signals, but I don't know which brand might be better and which worse. I have a Zenith and it does a fine job. Are you connecting your converter box to a cable TV service. It’s not designed for that. You shouldn’t need a converter box for cable serevice. It’s designed to receive digital signals off the air and convert them to analog signals for a conventional TV. A digital converter box isn’t designed to unscramble channels that are scrambled and won’t do that. The converter box also changes the picture to analog mode for a conventional TV and won’t look as good as the same picture displayed directly from it digital format on a hi-def TV. Some of the digital converter boxes and supposed to be more sensitive than others as far as receiving the signals, but I don’t know which brand might be better and which worse. I have a Zenith and it does a fine job.

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