Eric Rucker wrote:
> On Feb 7, 10:50 pm, "winston19842...{at}yahoo.com"
>  wrote:
>> On Feb 7, 10:36 pm, Alex Freed  wrote:
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>>> winston19842...{at}yahoo.com wrote:
>>>> 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. ;)

If that's the situation, then you can get "automatic" switching
by using an RF splitter in reverse to combine the modulator outputs
of the ATSC tuner box and the DVD player, both set to the same
channel.

Just turn off the one that's not being used.

-michael

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