HDTV FTA receiver

[be236]

ok, maybe I got confused.. I just thought HD and digital came "together as a package." heh...

In my area many of my local TV stations keep advertising they are broadcasting in HD...

Is it possible to broadcast in HD with analog signal?

I am guessing that a broadcast will just broadcast in HD and digital.. in either case (HD or digital), my old TV of the late 1990s wont pick it up.

[rainman]

ok, maybe I got confused.. I just thought HD and digital came "together as a package." heh...

In my area many of my local TV stations keep advertising they are broadcasting in HD...

Is it possible to broadcast in HD with analog signal?

I am guessing that a broadcast will just broadcast in HD and digital.. in either case (HD or digital), my old TV of the late 1990s wont pick it up.

with FTA channels that broad cast in HD you can't receive them with a standard receiver need a receiver that does 4.2.2.as for analog don't know if they can broadcast HD or not.

[be236]

Yes, I already know you need HD FTA receiver to get HD FTA signals... Dont know about that 4.2.2 stuff though...

As for HD and digital, I always thought they go hand-in-hand... I mean I dont think you could (or want to) broadcast HD over analog OTA or if you could broadcast SD over digital (well maybe you can, but why?)....

In either case, when it's time to watch HD, just get HDTV and all will be good (and HD FTA receiver when the price comes down.hehe)>\

[rainman]

Yes, I already know you need HD FTA receiver to get HD FTA signals... Dont know about that 4.2.2 stuff though...

As for HD and digital, I always thought they go hand-in-hand... I mean I dont think you could (or want to) broadcast HD over analog OTA or if you could broadcast SD over digital (well maybe you can, but why?)....

In either case, when it's time to watch HD, just get HDTV and all will be good (and HD FTA receiver when the price comes down.hehe)>\

yep agreed the price will have to come down just as soon as all the manufactures get on the band wagon nothing like competition to bring down prices.

[be236]

Yeah, but even if I picked up an HD channel and feed that into my regular analog SD TV, I dont think the picture will be any clearer than it is now using S-VIDEO. Watching many of the regular SD FTA channels via SVIDEO connector to my old 1997 TV looks crystal clear! heh.... so really, I would not notice any big difference until I get a new HDTV set itself as well.... d'oh.

[wejones]

ok, maybe I got confused.. I just thought HD and digital came "together as a package." heh...

HD is the resolution. Digital vs analog are just how they get the signal to you.

In my area many of my local TV stations keep advertising they are broadcasting in HD...

I'm pretty sure that the government mandate was for the stations to go digital, mainly to conserve bandwidth. The stations are using this as a way to switch to HD, which they couldn't do otherwise.

Is it possible to broadcast in HD with analog signal?

Yes, but it would take more bandwidth, which they don't have. Right now, the "channels" allocated to TV stations are about 6 MHz wide, and that is just enough to fit a SD signal into. In order to transmit HD in analog, the channels would have to be much wider. However, with digital, they can squeeze a HD channel and a couple SD channels into the same bandwidth.

I am guessing that a broadcast will just broadcast in HD and digital.. in either case (HD or digital), my old TV of the late 1990s wont pick it up.

Well the idea was supposed to be to force stations to switch to digital, but still allow people to use their old TVs via the purchase of a set top digital tuner. Like right now, I have an OTA digital tuner in my computer, and I can send the signal to my old SD TV. I can watch both the HD and SD channels on my TV, however the HD picture has the 16x9 aspect ratio squeezed into my 4x3 (or whatever it is) SD TV, so all the people look tall and skinny. I've gotten used to it for the most part, except that watching NFL football looks weird, as you don't expect to see skinny linemen.

[StevenS]

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