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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Today's DTV, with an ATSC->NTSC converter box? I don't think so. Unless you use a high-power fringe-area antenna ahead of your converter box, a 1950s Muntz TV won't pull in much of anything -- meaning, of course, don't try to use one of these old sets with a converter box and simply rabbit ears for an antenna. You will be setting yourself up for a heck of a disappointment if you do, since, as has been noted, Muntz televisions did not have the most sensitive tuners on Earth -- no thanks to Madman Muntz's pinchpenny nature; he wasn't about to put cascode tuners with high-gain tubes like 6BQ7s in his TVs.
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It should work well, the converter box will do all the heavy lifting as far as pulling in weak DTV signals. The converter box has a small channel 3 or 4 modulator that takes the decoded digital video baseband signal and feeds it to the modulator and that produces the same amount of power regardless of the DTV OTA signal strength.