Scan finds no channels. Selected both cable and air. Updated firmware. Have COX service. Have no cable box from COX. Scan on TV finds both analog and digital channels. Connected cable to DVD recorder and recorder finds digital and analog channels. I...
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This iView 3500STB works in Kentucky on Time Warner Cable. It will tune the unscrambled channels. It gets the numbers wrong but the channels are there. You say your TV could find unscrambled QAM channels so this iView set top box should do the same. If it's not working, I'd have to guess that it is a defective unit providing you have chosen "cable" in the menu for it's channel search.
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It goes in the Coax port TV, the old-school cable TV or TV antenna port, like the other answers said. Then, you have to set your TV to over-the-air or antenna in the menu, then you have to do a scan. I'm thinking if your not pulling any channels, hopefully its just because you need to run the scan.
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You do the scan via your TV. If its not as good as you known it could be, you then adjust the antenna and scan again. I use this antenna in parallel with another, so I get awesome reception with all local channels.
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I record digital channels on my recorder. You have to set it up for digital and for analog channels.
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Hello Amber!! After you connected the antenna did you set your Tv input and adjust the channel.. You have to scan the channel from 1 and set to air / antenna NOT cable. Hope it will help you.. Keep in touch.....good Luck
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It's analog TV signal, not digital. You need to connect the antenna to the DVD player, and use it to search channel.
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I wish it would have picked up the digital signals today during the test this city had for people to check their tvs. It did not. I picked up the local stations but they were running an alert that "this tv is not ready for digital signals" to all tvs that were not digital. If I put the cable connection on it then it is just fine but my understanding was that this tv had a digital tuner and could pick up digital signals.
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If your TV has a built-in tuner to receive digital broadcasts, the antenna should work. If your TV does not have a digital tuner, you will almost definitely get nothing. Digital capability is also know as ATSC. Old analog-only "cable ready" sets did not have ATSC tuners. In the U.S., there are some cities that have a few low-power analog channels still being broadcast, but that is rare and all the major channels are only broadcast digitally now.
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This item has tv with UHF / VHF signal, but i dont know has digital channels or not
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Over the air digital TV only or online streaming media like YouTube. You can record while you watch anything else...... Where would you find analog TV broadcast signals these days anyways? ;-)
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Did you select TV Antenna before the scan?IF the TV is scanning looking for Cable channels, it will only find the VHF Channels (Ch 2+13).On air channels above channel 13 are not the same frequency as Cable channels.Hope this helps...................
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What are you picking up with your old TV? All the channels have converted to digital. You need a digital convert box. If you look on Amazon you'll see the Home Worx 150-PVR (just a suggestion). In combination you'll be able to receive many of the Free to Air tv stations - and there are many. Ditch cable ;-)
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After you switch to antenna, you need to scan for available channels. Your TV will keep them in it's system for antenna. You only have to do this the first time.
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You can plug the cable directly into the dvr and view any channels that your cable provider broadcasts in analog format will still be viewable. If you plug it into the cable box it will only see the channel the box is tuned to.
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Dear B. Cameron There are at least two reasons why you might want a DVD recorder with a built in tuner. 1. In my case, I don't have a TV with a digital (ATSC) tuner. I have a 2003 HD television with an analog (NTSC) tuner, and I receive my TV signal over-the-air via an outdoor antenna. When the digital transition occurred earlier this year, I had a limited number of choices if I wanted to keep my current TV and free OTA set-up: I could buy a converter box and have the digital signal converted to analog for my TV; I could buy an external digital tuner; or I could buy a DVD player with a built in digital tuner and get the best possible picture with a DVD player/recorder thrown in to boot. I chose the last option and bought the Toshiba DR560. My set-up has some drawbacks... like, if the DVD player breaks I get no TV signal while it's in the shop, and I can't record one program and watch another at the same time; but over all I'm happy with it because it is just what I need and no more. If you have a similar set-up and have questions of a more specific nature, I'd be glad to respond. 2. The QAM tuner should allow you to receive and record unscrambled digital cable channels directly, without renting a set-top box. Cable providers don't advertise this, and some may even insist that it isn't true; but they are required by the FCC to provide rebroadcasts of locally broadcast programs in analog, or in unencrypted HD digital format, so that customers are not forced to rent their digital-to-analog set top boxes. You will only receive unscrambled signals of locally broadcast programs in this way, and these may vary from locale to locale. I do not have any personal experience with this set-up, but if you are interested, there is a more in depth description at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM_tuner. There may be other advantages to having a tuner included in the DVD recorder/player, but I wouldn't know `cause I'm not that well versed in the technology. Hope this was helpful.
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There are words on the receiver that are hard to see but Make sure the short end of the coax is screwed into the TV coax and the long end from the antenna to the receiver (marked ANT) then make sure the power cord is plugged in, if it is plugged into a surge protector, make sure the surge protector is turned On. Auto-scan channels again. Does this help?
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Go to the menu and select which input such as cable, sat, or antenna. Then it should guide you on the setup of scanning the channels and saving. Make sure you keep the battery charged as well on the unit as this helps them memory save the channels once scanned and stored.