OTA - can I do this?
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Not totally.
As someone said you can get a component switch that will allow to "share" the one HD input your tv has.
Really any RCA switch will work, if it is a manual (mechanically operated switch). If you want a automatic switch, you will need to look into one with enough bandwidth for HD video. I believe 30mhz is the minimum you would want for HD. I purchased one on eBay for around $70 that has 3 component and optical digital in and 1 component and optical digital out that uses a remote to change inputs. If I recall, it has 50mhz bandwidth.
Then look into an external OTA HD box. A TON of people use the old Voom boxes. Do a little eBay searching and you will see you can get one of the old Voom Motorola boxes or an older Samsung for less than $75.
About 4 months back I got a US Digital box from Walmart for $20.
So for $150 tops you could do exactly what you wanted to do and more, since the switch will still have 1 more input for your DVD player, HD video game system or whatever.
Component Video bandwidth:
What Is Video Bandwidth?
As someone said you can get a component switch that will allow to "share" the one HD input your tv has.
Really any RCA switch will work, if it is a manual (mechanically operated switch). If you want a automatic switch, you will need to look into one with enough bandwidth for HD video. I believe 30mhz is the minimum you would want for HD. I purchased one on eBay for around $70 that has 3 component and optical digital in and 1 component and optical digital out that uses a remote to change inputs. If I recall, it has 50mhz bandwidth.
Then look into an external OTA HD box. A TON of people use the old Voom boxes. Do a little eBay searching and you will see you can get one of the old Voom Motorola boxes or an older Samsung for less than $75.
About 4 months back I got a US Digital box from Walmart for $20.
So for $150 tops you could do exactly what you wanted to do and more, since the switch will still have 1 more input for your DVD player, HD video game system or whatever.
Component Video bandwidth:
What Is Video Bandwidth?
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That is not always true. My Samsung HDTV in the bedroom has a tuner, but it is NTSC only. It says "HD Monitor" on it very clearly.
Component 1/2 and DTV will all suport 1080i They had one labled DTV for ext tuner, but they all are the same.
My old Mits has the same setup.
My old Mits has the same setup.
Thanks a lot guys.
First I will try the last idea and switch the component cables going to the TV from the DTV set to one of the other 2 and see if I can get 1080i. If not, then I'll check into the boxes you guys mentioned.
First I will try the last idea and switch the component cables going to the TV from the DTV set to one of the other 2 and see if I can get 1080i. If not, then I'll check into the boxes you guys mentioned.
