I have a DVD Recorder w/ built in digital tuner attached to my analog TV. Do I need to get a Digital Converter Box? Why?

I have a DVD Recorder w/ built in digital tuner attached to my analog TV. Do I need to get a Digital Converter Box? Why?

Asked by barry58 37 months ago Similar questions: DVD Recorder built digital tuner attached analog TV Digital Converter Box Consumer Electronics.

Similar questions: DVD Recorder built digital tuner attached analog TV Digital Converter Box.

No, you shouldn't need a digital converter box. You already have digital capability. No, you shouldn't need a digital converter box.

According to the DTV website, you already have digital capability since you have a DVR and digital tuner. You can double-check with an electronics store, but no, you shouldn't need to buy a separate digital converter. Sources: https://dtv2009.gov/ .

DVD recorders offer a converter-box alternative. DTV converter boxes, designed to help analog TV owners survive the switch to digital TV, should arrive in stores by early 2008. But some consumers with older, antenna-equipped TVs don’t want to wait that long.

A new converter-box alternative will allow you to watch digital broadcasts on your analog TV today—using a DVD recorder with a built-in digital tuner. DVD recorders with DTV tuners are beginning to reach stores, selling for as little as $145. You might think of such a device as a “DTV converter box plus.”New DVD recorders can tune in digital TV broadcastsBut now, for $21 less than the Samsung, Magnavox offers a DVD recorder with built-in ATSC digital tuner, model ZC352MW8.

(ATSC refers to the Advanced Television Systems Committee, the standards body for the digital broadcast technology used in the U.S.)Reader Z. Purchased the Magnavox recorder/tuner and was able to receive every digital channel in his area (less than 2.5 miles from the broadcast towers) using an omnidirectional outdoor antenna. The picture quality when viewing local digital stations on his analog TV made the tuner well worth its cost, according to Z.

DVD-quality sound was a bonus, and initially the DVD player and recorder worked great, too. A significant drawback of the Magnavox, however, is achingly slow channel changes. When it takes between four and 15 seconds to change the channel, surfing becomes all but impossible.

Digital TV tuners are known for slower channel changes than analog, but this kind of box-full-of-molasses performance (also attributed, in online forums, to a related Magnavox DVD recorder/VCR/digital tuner combo, model ZV450MW8) may be a deal-breaker for people who mainly want a converter box. One forum commenter, however, found the ZV450MW8’s poky DTV broadcast channel changes only a bit slower than on a Sony HD DVR. Other complaints: The remote control has a poor layout, with buttons that are too small and no last-channel feature.

Also, no on-screen electronic programming guide (EPG) is included. Z. Ultimately returned his base-model Magnavox when the digital sound output for DVD playback stopped functioning.

Consumers who do not want to wait for the government-subsidized DTV converter boxes will soon have an increasing array of DVD recorders to choose from as stand-ins. Under an FCC mandate that took effect March 1, 2007, they must include digital tuners. Five ATSC-tuner-equipped DVD recorder models were spotted at Wal-Mart by an AVS Forum member in April, including models from Philips (which owns Magnavox, its value-priced brand).

http://dtvfacts.com/converter-box-alternatives/ Sources: http://dtvfacts.com/converter-box-alternatives/ .

I don't think you need to. But maybe for your own preference you can have it. Sources: My opinion .

1 I dunno. Why do you think you need one? .

2 Yes, you will need a converter box ONLY IF , you DO NOT have cable tv service. If you have cable service then the cable company will send a DA converted signal that your analog set can display.

Yes, you will need a converter box ONLY IF , you DO NOT have cable tv service. If you have cable service then the cable company will send a DA converted signal that your analog set can display.

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