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Tech Ping! Cannot Get HD on Fox on Time Warner Guests Coming! Help!
02.05.17 | chickensoup

Posted on 02/05/2017 8:59:52 AM PST by Chickensoup

I just checked my television to make sure the game will show well, it is a 70 inch sharp you folks helped me choose a while back.

I just discovered that I need some sort of cable digital box in order to watch Fox in digital.

I cannot get a cable box, TW is closed.

I found this place and it seems as though I can stream it into the TV but I cannot tell whether it is digital.

https://www.foxsportsgo.com/program/156815/super-bowl-li-patriots-vs-falcons

any help would be terrific. Or ideas.


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KEYWORDS: chickensoup; stupid; superbowl
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To: Chickensoup

....if you go OTA just for the SB... YOU GET BETTER THAN HD...got an old rabbit ears type antenna with the digital ring?...wallymart has them


61 posted on 02/05/2017 11:06:58 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: mowowie

Got an antenna now need to get the cable off the TV to replace with the antenna.


62 posted on 02/05/2017 11:10:00 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Chickensoup

Some TVs have two antenna inputs, so you may not even have to remove the current cable.


63 posted on 02/05/2017 11:14:12 AM PST by mtrott
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To: Chickensoup

Good luck man.

you will probably have to do a channel scan that might take a while then find out what the local Fox Chanel number is .

Enjoy the game on that HUGE TV.
GO PATS!!!


64 posted on 02/05/2017 11:17:35 AM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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To: TigerClaws

I installed the antenna! It works! I have great picture.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought an amplified indoor HDTV antenna by Antennas Direct.


65 posted on 02/05/2017 11:39:16 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Chickensoup

ROKU, then there are a few apps which will carry it in full HD, takes all of 10 minutes to set up. BTW, ROKU boxes are approved by TWC/Spectrum as an alternative for their digital boxes.


66 posted on 02/05/2017 11:40:10 AM PST by SirFishalot
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To: mtrott

Only one input.

I wonder if there is any such thing as a splitter, then I could have both antenna and cable with perhaps a flip of the switch? I may get a more permanent antenna.


67 posted on 02/05/2017 11:41:46 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: SirFishalot

Roku is something that I buy?

Where? Does it connect to the tv?
where?

I have HDMI ports.


68 posted on 02/05/2017 11:43:11 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: mowowie

Freepers!

Greatest husbands a woman ever had!!


69 posted on 02/05/2017 11:46:17 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Gaffer

Thanks for your input, very informative.


70 posted on 02/05/2017 11:47:48 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: SirFishalot

Good, now buy a Roku stick, Order Playstation Vue and CUT THE CORD!


71 posted on 02/05/2017 12:01:53 PM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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To: Chickensoup

Keep in mind for later: You can have both the cable (through an HDMI cord off a cable box) and an antenna connected at the same time. Your TV remote will have control settings that will let you switch without any re-connections etc.

This is for later, enjoy the game.


72 posted on 02/05/2017 12:39:23 PM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: Gaffer

People don’t watch the analog radio waves when they watch digital TV programming received via radio transmission. They watch images comprised from digital data.

Signals are converted to digital before being viewed. This is why older, analog TV’s had static and grainy images when reception was poor. Modern TV images have blockiness or go completely black when the signal fails.


73 posted on 02/05/2017 12:40:54 PM PST by unlearner (11/8/2016 - a new beginning.)
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To: unlearner

Okay. Nobody needs an antenna anymore. An overly simplified view. But you are welcomed to it.


74 posted on 02/05/2017 12:44:58 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Chickensoup

Yes. You buy it, tons of free and paid content on it, plugs directly into your HDMI, few different versions. Here us a link to learn more: https://www.roku.com/index


75 posted on 02/05/2017 4:01:13 PM PST by SirFishalot
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To: Chickensoup

A/B switch lets you go back and forth between cable and off-air channels - that’ll get you into the TV through the coax antenna connector - you’ll probably still have to switch between off-air and cable inputs at the input selection (probably in menu) in the TV itself.......


76 posted on 02/05/2017 8:58:47 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Thank you all for the help.

The antenna worked well and the get together was great!

What a game!


77 posted on 02/06/2017 4:41:07 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Gaffer

“Nobody needs an antenna anymore.”

No. Obviously you are right about antenna’s and electromagnetic waves.

The “analogue is dead” statement has to do with the image rather than the means of transmission.

But technically you are correct. If someone is using an antenna, then analogue is not completely dead.

The phrase simply means that audio and video are now presented digitally almost all of the time.

But perhaps your point was merely academic.


78 posted on 02/06/2017 6:55:01 PM PST by unlearner (11/8/2016 - a new beginning.)
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To: unlearner
The “analogue is dead” statement has to do with the image rather than the means of transmission.

Of course it is the final image conversion, but the poster also coupled the analog is dead comment with specific mention of antennas. I am very familiar with the new TV standard, but my OTA interface is still an antenna. In the end, all this really doesn't matter. I was just wasting my time I guess because I've spent all my life working with antennas (so, it does end up being an academic point). :0) Thanks.

79 posted on 02/07/2017 5:09:31 AM PST by Gaffer
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