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No in-the-clear on a new LED
I let the Friday madness pass and went to Target to get a cheap 19" Element that I needed for a dubbing setup I have. For fun I connected it to my basic cable to scan for the local off-the-air digital. Nothing other than the few analog channels Comcast uses to set tilt levels with showed up. No digi to be found. I took it back and got another one. Same thing. My current sets still get the signal even though their days are numbered and they are a few years old.
The question is do some newer sets have a block installed to shut down these few clear QAM signals even before the cables abandon them as they now can do? Philly did it two weeks ago. The suburbs are still getting them. And for $99 this thing looks great as a monitor.
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Why would a maker include QAM demodulation and turn it off completely? More likely doesn't have it or you haven't found the mode. I presume it has HDMI.
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I'd try using a standard antenna, either rabbit ears (the all-channel type with the UHF loops between the VHF dipoles) or a simple outdoor antenna. I don't know how far you are from the nearest TV stations, but if you are within, say, 20 miles of the transmitters, your LED flat screen should get them just fine. I live about 40 miles from the Cleveland TV stations' transmitters which are southwest of me, and can receive all but two of them with excellent pictures using an indoor antenna. The two stations I don't get, CBS 19 and FOX 8 in Cleveland, wouldn't you know it, carry the subchannels (MeTV and Antenna TV, respectively) that I watch the most.
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Why would a modern set even have QAM? I suspect that most cable subscribers use cable boxes to receive the higher tier channels and those that don't now will soon have to get a box to receive even the basic channels. I have noticed that some DTVs have already dropped NTSC decoding, perhaps QAM is being dropped as well?
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Most Comcast Digital Cable nee XFinity requires a Cable Box to function.
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Exactly. I had to get a special box (extra cost) from Comcast when I got my HDTV. Big difference.
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