Re: HDTV LCD TV'S WITH TWO TUNERS?

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:06:06 GMT Wes Newell <w.newell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:53:07 -0800, aaronep@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
|
|> Are there currently on the market HDTV LCD TV sets with TWO tv tuners so
|> that a PIP feature can be used?
|>
| All newer TV's have 2 tuners in them at a minimum. One NTSC and one ATSC.
| Most sets that support PIP will let you select a picture from each source
| including input of other sources like cable or sat. If you're looking for
| PIP with both being the same kind of tuner, you will probably have a hard
| time finding it. None of my TV's support PIP, yet I can get PIP on any of
| them using multiple tuners with MythTV. But since i can also record
| multiple shows, PIP becomes somewhat antiquated.:-)

How well will that work for OTA broadcasts in the USA on 18 Feb 2009?

Psychic signals I got from aaronep@xxxxxxxxxxx's post suggested to me that
he was more interested in being able to have a _digital_ program in each of
the PIP views, hence requiring two tuners, each capable of the appropriate
modulation of interest (be that 8VSB for over the air or QAM for cable).
I did not get any psychic signals on which source he wanted to use it for.

Personally, I prefer multiple digital tuners so I can get signals from two
or more separate antennas without having to combine the RF which can mess
up lots of things for signals getting in on both. Ideally, a single remote
that can smartly control which tuner is selected would help so that it
would not be necessary to switch between different HDMI inputs on the set
and pick a different remote for which external STB was used ... which is
the fallback method to achieve this if no direct solution is found.

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