Friday, January 8, 2010

Ota Antenna Can I Use The HMDI Input For OTA HD Antenna And The Single Coaxial For Basic Cable On My Panasonic 850 Plasma?

Can I use the HMDI input for OTA HD antenna and the single coaxial for basic cable on my Panasonic 850 plasma? - ota antenna

I'm not going to cable or satellite pay-HD, but my Panasonic has a coaxial input. Is it possible that I could keep my basic package of cable-HD and not get my HD via an antenna connection? I have a coaxial input, so I wonder if I can use one of three HDMI inputs to receive HD signals OTA.

Thank you!

2 comments:

Sullivan said...

It is not easy. Whatever happens from OTA HD HDMI would be very costly. It should have an ATSC tuner, included among other things.

You have cable? If so see if it composite (yellow jack) or S-video.

If it does not. Perhaps you can use a cable from the company that does.

If you do not have cable and do not (get one that means you have to rely on cable-ready TV tuner) I think your only option is a switch coaxial cable. There are even versions of remote control of the same.

TV guy said...

No, he can.
But you can buy an RF switch cheap Radio Shack and connect the cable and antenna input. The problem is that although the OTA and cable channel scan must be segregated and will be difficult to move from right to left.

Even better would be to connect the analog cables to a VCR, then connect the recorder to the TV via S-video or composite.

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