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[Ryck]

So in about a month's time I will be moved into my newly built house (which is great Im excited) however the house payment is going to cripple me financially and I am going to have to cut corners wherever possible. The first thing to be cut is going to be my digital cable service. I don't watch alot of TV but I do watch football every weekend and do so on the HD channels. Now I have an HD ready television so I know Im gonna need an HD reciever, my questions are these

1. How does it work
2. Which channels are in hd ie Fox is channel 6 in my area and the HD Fox is 706 would I still watch it on 706 or does it automatically convert 6 into hd?
3. Which is the best to get
4. Is it like reguar over the air television ( adjusting an antenna to get the best signal)
5. How does it look?

thanks in advance!

 

[golem]

So in about a month's time I will be moved into my newly built house (which is great Im excited) however the house payment is going to cripple me financially and I am going to have to cut corners wherever possible. The first thing to be cut is going to be my digital cable service. I don't watch alot of TV but I do watch football every weekend and do so on the HD channels. Now I have an HD ready television so I know Im gonna need an HD reciever, my questions are these

1. How does it work
2. Which channels are in hd ie Fox is channel 6 in my area and the HD Fox is 706 would I still watch it on 706 or does it automatically convert 6 into hd?
3. Which is the best to get
4. Is it like reguar over the air television ( adjusting an antenna to get the best signal)
5. How does it look?

thanks in advance!

1. Hooks into the back of your TV. You'll need to plug an antenna into the hd recv.

2. All major networks are in HD, and some of the lesser ones too. Here I get CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, and WB in HD.. UPN supposedly has an hd station on but doesnt seem to broadcast in actual hd. also indie stations like KCAL9 have a digital station up (dont broadcast in HD, but digital at least). For channel mapping, most recievers do this: ch6 would be normal, 6.1 would be HD and 6.2.. would be any extra digital channels they are broadcasting. The HD/digital channels do have actual channel numbers, usually in the 30+ range, but they are remapped for user friendliness.

3. Dunno.

4. Yes... get a good UHF antenna for HD

5. bananas

 

[Ryck]

Awesome thanks....Do you recommend indoor or outdoor antennas? I entered my zipcode on an Hd tuner website and it said I was about 3 mi from the closest ( wb) and 11 from fox and 20 from abc and cbs towers. Would an indoor work for those?

 

[golem]

hmm sounds like indoor should work ok for you... but outdoors are usually better imo. at my new house i have an indoor and its fine, but at my old house only an outdoor would hold signal for some channels