Re: HDTV switch

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-q41-this>]

  To: winston19842005
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 12:38:24 -0500, winston19842005 wrote:

> It just seemed "normal" to me to allow me to connect antenna to VCR/DVD,
> then VCR/DVD via coax to the box, and the box have either a button to switch
> from one mode to another (like the TV/VCR button on most VCRs). Or at least
> pass-through an unconverted signal when the box is powered off.
> 
> It is merely an annoyance and a comment on what I think is a lack of
> feature, as I only picked one up to play with...

All you need to do to fix this situation is to hook your antenna to the
convertor box, then take the coax out from it to the coax input on your
VCR/DVD and the coax out from that to the coax in on your TV.  The
VCR/DVD will do the pass-through of the converter box signal but will
block it when the VCR/DVD's TV/VCR button is in the appropriate state.

The reason it doesn't work in your current configuration is because the
converter box is designed to received digital signals and convert them
to the older analog format.  When you switch the TV/VCR button on your
VCR/DVD in your current configuration, you are blocking the digital
signal from the antenna and sending an analog signal to the convertor
and it doesn't understand it so displays nothing.