You might be able to find one on eBay, but it'd be considerably more expensive than the CECB. (They weren't allowed by the government coupon program.) Even the RF output is just an analog signal on RF 3 or 4, unless you turn the box off.īTW, the DTVPal DVR would do what you want, since it does have HD outputs (component and HDMI). Unfortunately there is no way to use the DTVPal CECB to tune your TV to different channels unless you're willing to watch them in SD. You'd have to switch inputs to use it this way: "TV" mode to watch TV in HD using your set's tuner, and "video" mode (or whatever the RCA calls the composite inputs) to view the DTVPal's outputs so you could see the EPG. Then send the composite outputs to your TV's composite input. It's basically the same as turning the box off!Ī better solution would be to split the signal from the antenna with an RF splitter send half to your TV's coax input and the other half to your DTVPal CECB. But the pass-through function is largely useless as the box's own outputs are shut off in this mode. The DTVPal has a function called "analog pass-through," which is actually RF pass-through, so it will pass RF digital signals through in this mode as well as analog ones. But I take it you're just trying to use it for the EPG. Here's a photo of what the channel and program guide looked like on my old analog tv.Ĭonverter boxes of this type are intended to convert digital TV signals to analog. Anybody know of a way to set a DTVpal converter box so it passes through the digital channel signals to the tv without conversion to analog images? I have the owner's manual for the device but it is moot on this point. The DTVpal device's channel & program guide displays on my RCA HD tv but, unfortunately, I have not been able to figure out a way to get or set the converter box to "pass through" the digital channels' video images WITHOUT converting them to analog images on my RCA HD tv, which look terrible (i.e., analog). This converter box displays a REALLY NICE channel & program listing on-screen when used with a digital OTA antenna. I also have a DTVpal digital-to-analog converter box, left over from use with my old analog tv. The TV is only hooked up to a digital antenna, for OTA, and I get about 25 local channels. This tv's built-in tuning and channel functions are very primitive, almost useless. I have an early model RCA HD tv (720p) in a spare bedroom.
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