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Whiskers · 11-08-2006, 10:15 PM

It's a Vizio L37 LCD tv. Acronyms don't mean much to me, never heard of QAM. It definately has a DTV tuner cause the menu is scanning for DTV stations. As for setup, yes it has a problem, it not totally set up yet, that why I came here. To learn how to set it up properly. As I said before in my posts, the 4228 antenna is currently sitting in my living room beside the tv pointing toward the majority of my stations. I hope to get it up in the air outside this weekend. I hooked it up like a giant set of rabbit ears to improve the signal as best i could, and see if I needed a preamp before I got it up 30' in the air. I really don't want to take it down to redo something.

Hehe, little update, while looking thru the manual trying to find the acronyms tex was talking about, I discovered this crazy tv has 2 antenna inputs. One for DTV and the other for standard analog TV or cable. I swapped connection to the new connection and it found 1 DTV station. Talk about a sharp clean picture. It not HDTV, standard formatting, but I guess that just the program they showing. And it also is not one of the stations I'm pointing at, but one 180 degrees in the opposite direction that is closer to me. Unfortunately I lost all my analog stations by doing this, I guess I'm expected to split the damn signal and hook it to both places. So yes, the tv is capable of receiving DTV, the question of whether I need a preamp is still in the air.

Yes I am a total newbie to HDTV. But hey, I got this tv new for $670 shipped, so I'm not stupid.

11-08-2006, 10:15 PM	#102
Whiskers My plasma is High Def. Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 6	It's a Vizio L37 LCD tv. Acronyms don't mean much to me, never heard of QAM. It definately has a DTV tuner cause the menu is scanning for DTV stations. As for setup, yes it has a problem, it not totally set up yet, that why I came here. To learn how to set it up properly. As I said before in my posts, the 4228 antenna is currently sitting in my living room beside the tv pointing toward the majority of my stations. I hope to get it up in the air outside this weekend. I hooked it up like a giant set of rabbit ears to improve the signal as best i could, and see if I needed a preamp before I got it up 30' in the air. I really don't want to take it down to redo something. Hehe, little update, while looking thru the manual trying to find the acronyms tex was talking about, I discovered this crazy tv has 2 antenna inputs. One for DTV and the other for standard analog TV or cable. I swapped connection to the new connection and it found 1 DTV station. Talk about a sharp clean picture. It not HDTV, standard formatting, but I guess that just the program they showing. And it also is not one of the stations I'm pointing at, but one 180 degrees in the opposite direction that is closer to me. Unfortunately I lost all my analog stations by doing this, I guess I'm expected to split the damn signal and hook it to both places. So yes, the tv is capable of receiving DTV, the question of whether I need a preamp is still in the air. Yes I am a total newbie to HDTV. But hey, I got this tv new for $670 shipped, so I'm not stupid. Last edited by Whiskers; 11-08-2006 at 10:32 PM.