Posted on 11/14/2024 6:58:52 PM PST by jagusafr
Trying to set up an OTA antenna with hdmi connections on my android TV. I get two identical separate signals, both all squashed up into the top of the screen, with the rest of the screen green.
It’s still an analog signal over a coax cable from the antenna. It has to connect to some kind of digital converter before it can provide and HDMI connection.
My beeber got hurt when 3 signals tried to enter it at once.
Said another way, if your “antenna” presents an HDMI output to your TV, it is really a combination antenna and ATSC tuner/converter box.
“OTA antennas do not connect to a TV with HDMI.”
Correct.
“Lots of OTA antennas connect with HDMI.”
Incorrect.
Fifty-plus years of RF here.
What is the difference between a sognal and a signal?
What is the difference between a sognal and a signal?
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A keyboard that cannot spell and a keyboard that can.
Or maybe a keyboard before coffee....
“this a digital or analog broadcast?”
Irrelevant if the S/N is adequate. The processing of the signal is all that matters.
“3 signals tried to enter it at once”
Is that a 58th gender?
“Fifty-plus years of RF here.”
High levels of RF Hertz....
IMHO.
The HDMI input on a TV is not for an external antenna. There should be a coax style antenna connector somewhere for the antenna hook-up. And as mentioned earlier there is no such thing as a “digital antenna”...any old (but still in decent shape) outdoor antenna will do i.e. the old one you had for your “picture tube TV”.
They are 10-12X more expensive than when Biden took over, So, yeah.
[What is the difference between a sognal and a signal?]
About tree-fitty
It really isn’t an antenna problem. This whole ‘digital TV antenna’ thing is really just a misnomer/misinformation.
What matters on the TV antenna is bandwidth and directivity (gain that includes efficiency of the antenna and downlink losses.).
I have a regular old HD yagi/uda antenna in my attic that picks up HDTV signals from Atlanta 60 miles away quite easily. All it needed was an inline amp located at the antenna terminal outputs.
The problem sounds to me to be a resolution/setting problem on the TV rather than the antenna.
1. Yes, digital antenna
2. There’s no coax input on the tv, that’s why I’m using a converter box and hdmi. No other inputs except USB (which didn’t work).
“Fifty-plus years of RF here.”
High levels of RF Hertz....
IMHO.
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That took about 500mSec.
Nice Shot *grin*.
LOL...
1. Yes, digital antenna
2. There’s no coax input on the tv, that’s why I’m using a converter box and hdmi. No other inputs except USB (which didn’t work).
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You sure that’s not a computer monitor?
The 2.4 GHz band is currently a totally fun place.
[Goes to nuke a “TV” breakfast....]
Positive: it’s a smart TV/mega tablet/computer on wheels.
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