Antenna

Still trying to catch up with the whole digital conversion and the HDTV over the air. I haven't spent much time in our camper over the last year, but what I do know is the over the air did not work last year. No real worries though, we had DirecTV and plenty of DVD's. Is all I have to do to get that Antenna to work for my TV is buy a digital converter box? I have the antenna that 99% of all campers come with, do I need to replace it? I'm looking at getting a new TV for the WC, would a new TV have the correct digital tuner for the antenna?

Sorry, lots of questions. Thanks in advance!!

The new TV will have the correct tuner or you could get a tuner box. We tried last year to find a converter box and no luck, so we bought a new TV.

Your factory antenna is fine.

Any TV manufactured after '07 should have a digital tuner. My advice is get a new flat panel HD TV and skip the converter box.

My advice is get a new flat panel HD TV and skip the converter box

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Go as big as you can squeeze in the ent. center. You won't regret it.

I wish I could figure out how to squeeze a 50" in there myself. It would be almost like being at a Imax theater inside the cat.

You could attach it to the ceiling with a hinge, don't forget a big sound system.

You shouldn't have any problems with the digital converter box. We have an old TV in one of our bedrooms. We hooked it to a digital converter box and rabbit ears antenna. The picture is great and we get lots of channels. Actually, before we could find the old rabbit ears, we just screwed a piece of coax into the back of the box and it made a fine antenna. When our Direct TV goes down during a storm (our big snowfall put it out for about a day), we can still get local programming on our little old tv. I know we could get local channels on our living room TV, which we gave each other for Christmas, but I don't know how to switch over from Direct TV to local. It's probably easy.

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The only thing that I don't like about the new digital tuners is that you have to scan for available channels every time you move to another location. Oh well, it's a small price to pay for those HD television shows.

dragynj wrote:Still trying to catch up with the whole digital conversion and the HDTV over the air. I haven't spent much time in our camper over the last year, but what I do know is the over the air did not work last year. No real worries though, we had DirecTV and plenty of DVD's. Is all I have to do to get that Antenna to work for my TV is buy a digital converter box? I have the antenna that 99% of all campers come with, do I need to replace it? I'm looking at getting a new TV for the WC, would a new TV have the correct digital tuner for the antenna?

Sorry, lots of questions. Thanks in advance!!

You mentioned that over the air did not work. Did you turn on the antenna booster? I know our very first trip out we had forgotten the dealer telling us about it, and we could not get TV over the air.