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.
Modern TV transmissions are digital:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television
They’re sending 1s and 0s which is why we now get 4 channels in what used to be one channel. Analog is dead, at least in TV land.
Push and hold in the power button until you see “boot” on the cable box, then release button. Box will reset itself and you don’t have to talk to idiots at twc.
Download the FOX Sports GO app and you can watch just like Netflix. See my post #25.
You probably need the right sub-channel, find your local listing:
http://www.tvguide.com/listings/
best buy is 20 minutes away and they have a bunch of antennas for tvs indoor ones. I think I will get one. I will be back. I am not exactly an installation guru.
Actually I was born in the wrong century.
That’s the problem with Wikipedia. Not everything it says is true. Categorically, RF waves (coming from and to an antenna) are not digital. Even the transport mechanism to your home “digital” box on cable or fiber is spectral.
The format may be called “digital” but the method of transmission is most always spectral if no wires are involved. Unless you have a completely transmission means like wired parallel signal cable or the like, you have an antenna.
Take it up with the FCC:
https://www.fcc.gov/general/digital-television
You take it up with them. But you do realize they publish a complete spectrum class allocation for all bands. Undoubtedly, this was created to de-conflict interference in over-the-air usages.
I am not saying that there aren’t digital TV signals; they just aren’t ‘digital’ when transmitted to and received by an antenna over the air - this is what you would call the analog domain. This fallacy helps to propagate disingenuous sales techniques some sellers us to sell antennas to customers under the nomenclature of “digital antennas.” There just ain’t no such animal. They are just regular antennas that have the proper bandwidth and performance to pick up the spectrum-shifted content for HD.
I have a Home Depot “regular TV” antenna that I made sure was operable in the new spectrum shifted HD band and I perfectly receive Atlanta HD signals over 60 miles away.
Don’t get taken in by hype.
You’re the one that cares. What we are engaged in now is what a friend of mine once called a “modeem” conversation. He called it that because there was a guy he knew at work who could go on at length about hyper dorky things including how modem should be pronounced “modeem” not “modehm” because it was short for modulator de-modulator. He thought people should be impressed by his hyper dorky knowledge, meanwhile he was just an annoying ass dominating conversation with stupid crap that nobody gave a damn about.
Congratulations, you’re the alpha geek, you have successful dominated a conversation with stupid crap about how digital TV shouldn’t be called digital TV, and I don’t give a damn.
un....all “over the air” TV is mandated to be digital since 2009.
HD is a different story. Fox & Fox sports do broadcast in HD
http://hd-report.com/hd-channels/
So how did you discover you needed a cable digital box ?
No. He said “coax” which is what comes before the modem (and there isn’t any diversionary pronunciation problem there friend).
Additionally, your comment to which I replied was the first mention of ‘antenna’. The ‘stupid conversation’ part was your doing.
But you are correct about one thing - I don’t give a damn. I was just trying to impart some knowledge that all hype and advertising isn’t for your benefit. Take it or leave it.
arg...I see it now. you have Time Warner and yes you would need a cable box.
The game is offered over the air.
You can get a TV antenna ( old rabbit ears type) that will pull in FREE(over the air) TV. You should be able to set your TV to “TV” and scan for all the free stations that will reach you. You should be able to get FOX and in HD
Blimark HD antenna works great for us. It’s the size of a placemat, flat, we hooked it up to the TV, change the source to TV instead of cable box, HD quality for one-time charge of about $27.
Good luck!
Dude you won, I labeled you the alpha geek, stop trying to convince, I’ve already accepted that you’re brilliant, and irritating, and I don’t give a crap about anything you have to say on this topic ever again.
FoxNews is cable only... not Fox.
There’s no need to be condescending and rude. I was just trying to clue you in. Have a great Sunday, fella.
Lol, I’ll just be interested and happy to see if chickensoup is able to see the game in HD!
I understand. I did send him a PM and told him what I’d do if he had that new Sharp TV. I’d have run a new auto-channel search to see if it could pick up any signal that might have what he wanted. He never did answer me.
Go out and grab an antenna, you can watch the game in uncompressed High Definition over the air.
Will probably look better than what cable has to offer.
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