How to get full picture on CRT television sets

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Originally Posted by fixmeplease

There does seem to be differences in the converter boxes sometimes, the options. And some will pick up more channels with the same antenna. I must have 5 or 6 of them here.

An antenna is an antenna. There is no such thing as a digital or smart antenna. The same antenna that worked 50 years ago will work now. And with digital stations you either get a channel in quality or you dont get it at all. If it locks up and just shows squares you dont have a good signal but if you can get a channel good, the picture wont be any better quality with a different antenna.

I like the zoom setting as the things on the sides of the screen arent that important anyway. It makes faces just as big as they are with a large LCD tv. Some old shows will still fit your screen well too. Good luck

Right you are but with one exception. Amplified antennas and (in the case of outdoor antennas) antenna amplifiers. Any antenna amp that predates DTV is potentially more of a detriment than a benefit...DTV tuners can balk at antenna amps that are too noisy and have worse reception with a noisy antenna amp than they do off just the antenna alone.

Also most DTV is on UHF not VHF so usually best results come from a good UHF antenna, there are some VHF DTV stations so when picking and setting up an antenna you need to look at the carrier channel (not the virtual channel number the station advertises) of the weak stations you want and pick/optimize your antenna for those (the strong stations will take care of themselves).