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from: Eric Rucker
date: 2009-02-07 20:15:54
subject: Re: HDTV switch

On Feb 7, 10:50=A0pm, "winston19842...{at}yahoo.com"
 wrote:
> On Feb 7, 10:36=A0pm, Alex Freed  wrote:
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> > winston19842...{at}yahoo.com wrote:
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> > > I noted, with some horror, that with the converter box connected to
> > > our TV, that it would not "pass-through" the
signal from our DVD
> > > player!
>
> > > Horror of horrors, I will need a switchbox of some kind!
>
> > > Is this progress?
>
> > Are you telling us that your TV doesn't have a "baseband" video
> > input and you use a modulator to connect the DVD? Or that your
> > TV has exactly one video input and you need to switch between the
> > converter and the DVD?
> > I've never seen a converter box but I'm willing to bet it has a
> > "channel 3" RF output to be compatible with ALL old TVs.
>
> > If you are using RF to connect the DVD then you don't mind much
> > reduced quality. Tune it to a different channel and use your TV
> > remote to switch. But I have not seen a TV with no video inputs
> > made in the last 20 years.
>
> No, the converter box to tv is fine. The converter box will not pass
> through the signal from a VCR or DVD device.
> Perhaps if it was an HD DVD, but you get nothing even with the box
> turned off...

Just to make things clear, what inputs are you using for the converter
box and the DVD player?

And, as for a TV with no video inputs... my mom has a Toshiba 19" TV
with only coax in, made in 2004, IIRC. ;)
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