This transition will affect only people who use antennas, such as 'rabbit ears,' to receive broadcast TV over the air. The first thing that you need to know about all this is that if you have a TV connected to a cable, satellite, or other pay TV service, you have nothing to worry about, and you do not have to do anything to continue watching TV as you have been. This mandate has led to a great deal of fear and confusion across the country, and in this article I try to clear up much of the confusion. (this will let you watch any channel while recording any channel).The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandated that all full-power television stations in the United States stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting at midnight on February 17, 2009. > ATSC tuner (w/ APT) -> recorder (VCR or DVD recorder) (This will allow you to do everything except watch and record different digital programs.

(this will only allow you to record analog programs but watch either analog or digital programs anytime).Ĭ) if the ATSC tuner has both Composite and S-VIDEO outputs, you can connect one to the TV and the other to the recorder and use a Y cable to connect the audio to both (don't use a Y cable for video). (or use a 3 way splitter and connect the TV to the 3rd splitter output)Ī) connect the AV output of ATSC tuner to the recorder.ī) connect the AV output of ATSC tuner to the TV. > recorder (VCR or DVD recorder) -> analog TV

Option 4 is missing some detail and there are several options as you haven't specified what is connected to the other side of the splitter and how to connect the A/V cables: Option 3 allows you to watch and record analog and digital channels, but if you are recording anything (analog or digital) you can only watch analog TV or the program you are recording. Option 2 only allows you to watch digital channels. Option 1 allows you to watch both analog and digital channels. Click to expand.Those are 4 of the options (there are others).

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