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You do need an antenna and need to access the menu and change input to antenna. Through the menu you should be able to let the tv auto scan for channels.
U want free air DTV?Yes,have a good Digital antena or a roof antena hood up to ur tv.Goto the tv menu.Goto SETUP go down to Ch.setup enter and pick AIR not CABLE.Enter it again for scanning for DTV free air channels.After done the scanning u should have all the free DTV free air channels.
If you are in the USA, all free broadcast channels are digital, so you won't get anything without a digital converter box. In Canada, some channels are still available without the box till August 2011. The tuner may be defective. Use a VCR or cable converter with audio/video outputs and connect them to the appropriate inputs on the TV, use the VCR or converter to change the channels.
With this model tv, if you are using the coaxial connection on the tv to receive local stations you will not get any. The tv is digital, but not the tv tuner. As of June or July 2009 that tv will no longer receive analog channels from local stations as they are now all digital. You need a digital cable converter box to convert the signals to analog. *** This is if only if you are using the coaxial input.***
Your question is confusing. If you have cable, you don't need a DTV converter box.
If your cable company has switched to digital cable, they will provide you a box, and the cable should go from the wall into the box, then into your TV.
If you don't have cable but instead rely on an antenna, then the wire will go from the antenna into the DTV box, then from the DTV box into the back of the TV. If you're using a regular coaxial cable to go from the DTV box into the television, the TV should be set to channel 3. If you're using the red-yellow-white RCA wires between the DTV box and the television, the TV must be tuned to "Aux," "Line In," "Input Select," or whatever it's labeled on your particular set.
I do not know if you will get this message but if you do. Here goes. The protron PLTV3250 does indeed have a digital tuner that can be used with an over the air antenna. You need to push "source" on the remote until DTV is selected. With this selected and your coaxial cable from your antenna hooked up to the digital connector (not analog) on the back of this tv you can then press Menu and you will see a totally different looking menu that you are probably not used to seeing and then from there you can do an auto scan for the digital channels and it works great. I have rabbit ears hooked up to this Protron PLTV3250 and this has a beautiful picture. Far better than the picture I get from just the standard digital Directv receiver. You do not need a seperate digital tuner box to use with this TV. It does indeed have an ATSC digital tuner and it works great. You probably are selecting Source "TV" in the menu and that is not what you select for this TV to use the Digital Tuner. You need to select DTV from the source menu. Good luck and please let me know if you already knew this or if this helped you. Thanks, Tom
no you will need a box and a hd antena
your tv if it is hd ready will then recive hd quality tv.
the only time you dont need a box is with cable or sat thay provide the convershions.
thanks,
and hope this is of help to you.
daniel
You can try using an rf modulator to convert the coax signal into one that you connect to the tv using RCA jacks. I believe that model has one source on it for AV. Most stores carry these and they are relatively inexpensive.
If there is no digital tuner built into the tv or unless you subscribe to Cable TV or Satellite service you will still need a converter to view tv with rabbit ears (air broadcast).
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