Sat or cable boxes with OTA Tuners?

[CLASSICDIRECTV]

i know this sounds a bit peculiar but ill still go ahead and ask, do any of you know any cable box models (motorola, arris, comcast, samsung etc...) or sat receivers (dtv etc..) that have a DEDICATED ota tuner (ntsc or ATSC) and does not require an sat connection or service? Tivo is out of the question as looking for one with lifetime is just.... yeah.. and the reason not for a dish receiver is due to this location does not have a dish sat, but does have a slimline 3 reverse band sl3s LNB but its on the roof... with that said, I'm basically looking for a cable/ sat receiver that can act as a tv tuner to relive some 2000s nostalgia and so i can use it on my 19 inch Samsung Bordeaux TV from 2006 .

 

[Bruce]

i know this sounds a bit peculiar but ill still go ahead and ask, do any of you know any cable box models (motorola, arris, comcast, samsung etc...) or sat receivers (dtv etc..) that have a DEDICATED ota tuner (ntsc or ATSC) and does not require an sat connection or service? Tivo is out of the question as looking for one with lifetime is just.... yeah.. and the reason not for a dish receiver is due to this location does not have a dish sat, but does have a slimline 3 reverse band sl3s LNB but its on the roof... with that said, I'm basically looking for a cable/ sat receiver that can act as a tv tuner to relive some 2000s nostalgia and so i can use it on my 19 inch Samsung Bordeaux TV from 2006 .

A DTV Pal Plus Receiver Digital-to-Analog TV Converter Box would work.

They sell them on ebay.

 

[NYDutch]

Why not just use an ATSC/NTSC digital converter with your Samsung?

(One example, there are others)

https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-HOMEWORX-HW130STB-Converter-Recording/dp/B01EW098XS/

 

[harshness]

Why not just use an ATSC/NTSC digital converter with your Samsung?

They lack a certain nostalgia that the TS is expressly chasing after. Otherwise, a 19" TV in a wide-screen HD world makes no sense.

I'm a little surprised that any 2006 TV doesn't support DTV.

Amazon is currently offering a 32" HD Fire TV with LED backlight for $89.99.

 

[CLASSICDIRECTV]

A DTV Pal Plus Receiver Digital-to-Analog TV Converter Box would work.

They sell them on ebay.

i know about those, but do you know about any other receivers?

 

[CLASSICDIRECTV]

They lack a certain nostalgia that the TS is expressly chasing after. Otherwise, a 19" TV in a wide-screen HD world makes no sense.

I'm a little surprised that any 2006 TV doesn't support DTV.

Amazon is currently offering a 32" HD Fire TV with LED backlight for $89.99.

yeah indeed, before 2008 every tv samsung made under 26 inches was analog only, this one doesnt even have hdmi although its 23 inch and above counterparts have it and the 26 and up models have dtv tuners

 

[CLASSICDIRECTV]

Why not just use an ATSC/NTSC digital converter with your Samsung?

(One example, there are others)

https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-HOMEWORX-HW130STB-Converter-Recording/dp/B01EW098XS/

they are all the same crappy, chinese boxes just with a differnet crappy casing. im looking for something thats actually like cable or sat and preferabbly a nice feeling remote and the ability to do ntsc as well although thats not a requirement

 

[Mr Tony]

NTSC does not exist for OTA. That was the old analog stations. Everything has been digital for a long time

 

[CLASSICDIRECTV]

NTSC does not exist for OTA. That was the old analog stations. Everything has been digital for a long time

i know that, i meant it because i have a couple of rf modulators that broadcast in ntsc

 

[NYDutch]

i know that, i meant it because i have a couple of rf modulators that broadcast in ntsc

You already have a TV that does NTSC.

 

[CLASSICDIRECTV]

You already have a TV that does NTSC.

yes but its ui is very basic, i do not have its original remote, and id also like to be able to do atsc.

 

[harshness]

yeah indeed, before 2008 every tv samsung made under 26 inches was analog only, this one doesnt even have hdmi although its 23 inch and above counterparts have it and the 26 and up models have dtv tuners

While this may be true of the CRT-based TVs, I'm not convinced that NTSC-only tuners were a feature of flatscreen TVs in 2006.