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amdx[_3_]

On 3/27/2015 8:54 AM, wrote:
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 12:27:37 AM UTC-7, amdx wrote:
On 3/26/2015 6:18 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 4:00:41 PM UTC-7, amdx wrote:
On 3/26/2015 2:55 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 9:55:29 AM UTC-7, amdx wrote:
Hi Guys,
I've had this Bravia for 2 or 3 years, just know seeing how much is
available.

Anyway,
I want to have cable and OTA available. I don't see an easy way to do
it. If I put in an RF switch from cable to OTA, then I still need to
reprogram the tuner for digital channels. I think?
That's to involved just to see the local weather Radar.
I now I can buy an external tuner, is there another option?
Mikek

There's got to be a better interface than RF to get from your cable box to the TV. Then you can use RF input for OTA and set channels as needed.

I don't need or use a cable box.
I keep hearing rumors that the cable company is going to go that route,
but that's been over two years since I first heard it.

Mikek

Now you contradict yourself after first saying you want cable or OTA.

Plug the antenna into RF input for OTA then deal with whatever it is that is now not cable later.

One of us is confused.
In my OP I said, "I want to have cable and OTA available."
Emphasis on the "and".
I have cable from a company named WOW. (Wide Open West)
So, I connect the Cable to the TV and I have 2 through 70. and then 25
more digital channels between 98.1 and 117.13.
Recently my daughter moved into an apartment and wanted an antenna.
I built a couple and tried them out using my TV, I found some local, OTA
channels I would like, especially a weather radar signal that is not on
my cable.
So I would like to use both signals, and as I tried to describe,
if I have the tuner set for cable and programed, it won't receive
OTA signals, and if I set it for antenna and programed it won't receive
cable.
I suspect I'll need to buy a OTA tuner.
Mikek

Most people use HDMI to connect from the cable box to the TV. Maybe you have a '70s cable box.

This frees-up the RF input for its intended purpose, Antenna, along with its own available channel selections.

Let me state it clearly.
I don't have a cable box!
I don't have a cable box!
I don't have a cable box!
Now maybe you get it.
But just in case, The cable comes out of the wall and goes directly into
the Sony Bravia TV. The only thing between the cable coming from the
street and the TV is a 4 way splitter. There is nothing else.
There is No Cable Box in my home, there has not been a cable box in my
home for the 21 years that I have lived there. The fact is I'm 60 years
old and have had cable since at least 1981, I have never had a cable
box. I once bought a houst that came with a 10ft satellite dish, it did
have box, but I got cable and I did NOT have a cable box.
Are you convinced, or are you going to insist that I have a cable box?
Mikek
PS.
I don't have a ****ing cable box!

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