Sounds like you need a DTV converter if you don't get a new TV, since the FCC mandated termination of analog broadcasts a year or two, originally planned termination for this past February, and extended it to this month. :)
I've had the converter box for months now, just tried to set it up today. I have really good bunny ears for it, too. I was using an RF Modulator before this all happened. I tried setting everything up with and without the modulator...only works without. I also can't seem to use the dvd player now. My tv may really be obsolete.
The problem may be the antenna. I bought a middling-good $40 one for my mom, to attach to the $120 portable TV that is replacing her old $20 handheld that she used to use to watch TV for a little while before she went to bed. Her old TV was the size of a telephone handset and ran on rechargeable AA batteries; her new one is the sixe of a hardcover book, and has a power cord coming out of one side and a coaxial cable coming out the other attached to the gigantic DTV rabbot ears that ALSO need to be plugged in. It's the same antenna that I hive for my TV across town that pulls in all of the local stations. After much repositioning and experimenting, she can currently pull in everything but the local NBC and CBS affiliates. (Who watches them, anyway?) Apparently this has to do with the DTV signal being blocked by things like walls, trees, mountains, buildings, clouds, and passing birds. I think to get NBC and CBS we would need a rooftop antenna, probably positioned well above the tallest buildings in the neighborhood. Progress
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Also, your DTV converter box may have a jack in the back where you can pass through your DVD signal without going through the RF converter (I think.) If not, you should be able to get a switcher that will allow you to have both things connected at the same time. If you get a newer TV, you can connect the DVD player directly through A/V or S-Video cables.
I've been considering an HD for my living room. If you want, some time we can go out bargain-hunting. I'm sure I am going to cringe at every price I see on these things, but it might be worth it. My problem is that I notice very little difference in resolution and all that junk with HD vs. analog. It just looks like the screen has been freshly windexed to me at best.
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If you're not a picky, avid TV/Movie watcher or a home theater geek, you should be OK with just about anything out there.
Check reviews online, shop around a little, the chances of going "wrong" are very slim.
(I, on the other hand, am picky and nothing short of a good HD set with at least a 40 inch screen will do... which is why I don't have a new TV.) :)
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Also, your DTV converter box may have a jack in the back where you can pass through your DVD signal without going through the RF converter (I think.) If not, you should be able to get a switcher that will allow you to have both things connected at the same time. If you get a newer TV, you can connect the DVD player directly through A/V or S-Video cables.
- Harold
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