how to hook up analog to digital converter box

This means I will be required to add analog-to-digital converter boxes either rented or purchased from my cable service for each and everyone of my seven TV and VCR's just to kep the same system I have now. However my cable service has told me they will be converting to all digital broadcasting in Feb 2009 as well.

I personally am now on cable, which broadcasts analog and have 3 analog TV's and 4 analog VCR's. So if you want to use your analog TV and VCR at the same time (for example, to watch one program and record another simultaneously), you will need two digital-to-analog converter boxes. The digital-to-analog converter box basically replaces the analog tuner in one piece of equipment. You will need one digital-to-analog converter box for each TV set or other device (such as a VCR) that only has an analog tuner. There is a goverment site with some answers to all the various questions about the analog-to-digital conversion:Ĭan I hook up more than one TV and video recorder to a single digital-to-analog converter box? They are not required to do so yet but you can bet they will convert as soon as possible, so be prepared to add converters to your cable service also. This will also be necessary if you are now receiving analog TV broadcasting via a cable service and the cable converts it's service to digital also.

To use your VCR to record a different channel from what you are viewing on your TV you will require a separate converter box for it. This means you cannot use the VCR to record one program and view another on your TV. This means you will select the channel on the converter box not the TV or VCR.

These converter boxes will in effect replace the analog tuner of the TV or VCR. If you are using analog tuner VCR's, which almost all of them are, you will also require a digital-to-analog converter box for them also. Therefore if you are receiving over-the-air TV TV broadcasts now you will need to purchase a 'digital-to-analog' converter box to use your old analog TV set. In Feb 2009 all over the air TV broadcasting (analog signals) will be changed to digital broadcasting (digital signals).

How to hook up analog to digital converter box