# TV situation

Category: Broadcaster's Lounge

## Post 1 by bea (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 18-Feb-2008 7:15:04

with digital TV coming in next year what are you folks doing about getting updated. I don't have cable TV and wonder about the converter box and how accessible is it. I have a VCR hooked up to my stereo system and listen to TV through the stereo. My TV is old and I wonder where to start for updating my system. I hope I can contact the person who hooked my stuff up 18 years ago but if not I need info on what to buy so I can listen to a few TV programs. I don't have cable TV or dish TV. I posted here once but can't find my original post from yesterday so it probably did not go through. Hope this one does.

## Post 2 by bea (I just keep on posting!) on Wednesday, 21-May-2008 7:50:08

update. I now have a VCR/DVD combo hooked up. Anybody know what the select drive is used for? The circuit city helpers put braille that I made up on buttons of the machine and I wondered what drive select did. I now can play DVD's which is great, although I have to use the remote control to skip around to different episodes and rewind some but that's okay. I didn't know if anything at all could be done with this situation. Anyway, if there is info on drive select let me know what that is. sorry for the long post.

## Post 3 by soaring eagle (flying high again!) on Wednesday, 21-May-2008 8:24:55

is it possible to select tape or dvd? and if you have cable, I don't think you need a box.

## Post 4 by bea (I just keep on posting!) on Wednesday, 21-May-2008 16:18:07

I don't have cable and have figured most of the system out. The panasonic VCR/DVD has a tuner in it and that is digital. Because I live in a condo, the folks who run things will be changing the atenna for TV on the roof which I am hooked up to. As I understand it, I won't need a box for conversion because the tuner is already digital and will pick up the digital signal when the antenna outside is changed. I hope everything works in 2009 like it is supposed to.

## Post 5 by bea (I just keep on posting!) on Thursday, 13-Nov-2008 7:04:19

update. The TV does not work. The digital signal was tested yesterday so now I guess I either buy a converter box or new TV. Hope circuit city who filed for bankrupcy will at least come in and hook a new TV up. Am so disappointed, but had told the tech who came in here originally I needed a new TV. He wanted to do an easy thing and just hook the DVD player up I think. Anybody else having problems with the TV signal switch?