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Even if you use OTA, D* has a digital tuner, so your OTA will continue to work....
Or at least thats what I've been told previously.
Jimbo
The more I think about it, the less I'm convinced that I am right about the OP question.
They didn't say what the RCA model number was, but most of the old boxes had OTA pass thru's, not tuners.
The D* signal IS digital, but the OTA signal is analog, unless the box has a digital tuner in it, like the H series, the old RCA's I doubt they had anything better than a analog tuner, if that.
Jimbo
They didn't say what the RCA model number was, but most of the old boxes had OTA pass thru's, not tuners.
The D* signal IS digital, but the OTA signal is analog, unless the box has a digital tuner in it, like the H series, the old RCA's I doubt they had anything better than a analog tuner, if that.
Jimbo
I am not aware of any Directv receivers which had analog OTA tuners. The RCA I had certainly did not. I suspect that the only reason that the early HD receivers had tuners was that a lot of the early TVs were "HD-ready" without any tuner.
you're right. the old RCA boxes don't have an OTA tuner. sorry OP but you'll need to upgrade.
correct. i took a glance at a few of the old rca boxes to help the OP and none had OTA tuners.
They had the OTA connection to serve as a pass thru from what I remember.
The H series , early anyways, My H10, had both analog and digital tuners in them, from what I can remember, I know I could tune to the analog channel, maybe it didn't have a digital tuner in it, but I think it did, it's been a long time since I used it.
Jimbo
These guys are making a lot of assumptions without asking the right questions. Do you or did you ever pay D* for local channels? If that answer is yes, then you should be good. SD locals over the satellite are not going away on 2/17/09.
They just not might be available via the old RCA boxes as only a few select markets had locals available on the RCA boxes; Chicago was one of them in the 900's.
that's what I said in my 2nd post. if he was already getting his locals through D he had nothing to worry about.the op still hasn't posted more info so we can help him
There were a lot of locals available to those old boxes, mainly in the 8 and 900's, later they were re assigned to the normal 1-99 channel location.
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