I've seen something "like" this asked, but unclear answers were presented: does this work with NTSC cable channels or just QAM cable channels?
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I used it for OTA reception. When it worked it was fine, but it had too many crashes producing seriously loud digital noise: so I returned it.
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My experience is that it will receive NTSC channels, but does not display them very well. I use my equipment for displaying QAM channels only. I view the NTSC channels using the internal receiver on my projection tv. I hope this helps!
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I just got it in today,. On the channel scan I am getting both analog and Clear QAM Local Networks on Time Warner.From the manual "US System NTSC-M, ATSC Standard (8VSB) and QAM"
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This is a tuner designed to receive over the air or QAM cable broadcast signals. There is no current broadcast signal that goes over 1080i or 720p and no tuner is able to deliver 1080p. Also, the connections on the back are only coax and s-vhs and neither can do 1080p
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It has a QAM tuner which is what's required by most providers for direct connect, bypassing the cable box. You will not get premium channels, nor the station guide. And most providers will only supply unscrambled those channels that are available over-the-air. I use this successfully with FIOS TV.
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It can convert QAM signals, depending on you cable system you may have to get different firmware for this from IView customer support. They will email it to you when you call.
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Not sure about ClearQAM but I'm it works fine with SD NTSC baseband composit video using the RCA video input. I feed in my security cams into it and display them fine on my IPad or IPhone.
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Hi Taofiki, my model does do both NTSC and PAL, but not all models do. You would need to make sure that the specifications indicate either PAL or both, or give the option to upgrade from only NTSC to both. That is an option you have to pay for though.
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The Channel Master 7001 tuner is not an analog tuner. It is a digital only type tuner. It can pick up digital ATSC signals (over the air digital signals) and it can pickup unscrambled QAM digital signals on a cable TV system. But neither of these two formats are the older type of NTSC "analog" signals you are asking about. Of course analog signals are no longer broadcast over the air and many cable systems are also getting rid of them too since it is an outdated approach. But many cable systems also still carry some analog signals (in standard definition) for those customers that don't want to pay for digital cable boxes or don't have compatible equipment. Most TVs today have both a built in digital tuner and an analog NTSC type tuner so a TV can scan in both types of channels. While it is a drawback of the 7001 tuner that it can't do analog NTSC channels, the price is still very low for what you get given its digital capabilities. I've bought mine realizing it was not going to do the analog channels. I've had it for about two months and really like it for receiving digital HD signals on cable. I use it with an Epson HD projector.
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You CAN'T. The DTA-800B1 does NOT work for cable television. It only is capable of receiving and decoding over-the-air digital broadcast television channels (a format called "ATSC"), not cable channels (using a format called "QAM").
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Look for or ask if you satellite box outputs clear-QAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM_(television) It's very likely that you will only get the broadcast networks. If you can plug the coax output from your cable/sat box into your TV and the TV doesn't have any special cable features like a cable card you should be able to use this to record whatever you could watch on the TV.
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Based on my experience, this TV is unable to "interpret" a digital signal (analog only). You will need a QAM tuner if your cable company does not provide a set top box for digital channels.
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I see it wrote Atsc/Ntsc/Qam Tuner when it scans for channels it lists them as Analog and Digital and each one has a signal strength listed - QAM is a Cable term for Cable Tuner
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Nope. Wish it would. If older reviews are still available there is one that suggests a very limited use for this cable. HDMI is a digital audio and video signal and needs a digital to analog conversion with synchronization of the audio to the video. A cable can't do that. It requires digital signal processing to do the conversion. The cheapest way to do that is buy a digital TV. There are converters, but they cost way more than the converter box to convert HDTV to NTSC analog.
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I can't say for certain. The manual says it has ATSC/NTSC channel coverage and that it has a channel frequency synthesized tuning system. I can't find any reference to a qam tuner.
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I live in Venezuela and NTSC system used here, my daughter brought a nintendo wii in europe is PAL system and therefore the TV did not work in my country. This device worked correctly for me to convert PAL to NTSC, also serves to convert NTSC to PAL, bone is bidirectional. I hope my comment will be helpful.
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Yes, it converts the PAL signal to play on an NTSC TV. You don't have to do anything special if it's an all-region disc. For discs that are region specific, you have to reset through the preferences menu, which is explained in other reviews.
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Although there aren't many, some cable companies still carry some of their channels in an analog or digital non-QAM format for extra TVs in the house that don't have their own cable box. But those days are gone for most cable companies, or will be changing soon for the few who still do. Most of them are scrambling all the channels or soon will be. You'll need a cable box or will soon if you don't have one. So QAM may be a moot point in the USA. You'll have to plug your TV into the box or a TV antenna.