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03-13-2012, 07:43 PM
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Class A, TV Setting
Hello I have just bought a 2007 Feetwood Discovery 39s with in motion sat. I put my dish reciever it it, from my traded in 5th-wheel my question is in the settings on the TV should it be set to air or cable, and I do know tv set will be tuned to channel 3 or 4, thanks
Darrell,
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03-13-2012, 08:25 PM
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Which ever one that receives the signal from the DISH receiver, most likely "air".
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03-14-2012, 07:09 AM
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Darcar5,
It depends on which input on the TV you connected the receiver to. You only need to worry about selecting cable or antenna if you use coax. If that's the case, I would use the setting that gives you all the channels, most likely antenna.
If I had a choice, however, I would connect the receiver to the TV using HDMI, component or composite (RCA) cables in that order rather than coax. In fact, the newer receivers for Direct do not even have a coax output. You will then need to select the appropriate input on the TV using the remote.
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03-14-2012, 07:15 AM
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The air/cable setting only matters for channels above 13 where the cable band and UHF band are different. If your TV is connected to the satellite receiver by coax then either setting will work.
However, as has been already noted, you are making a serious quality mistake by connecting the TV using coax unless there is no other choice. Any other connection method, even the old yellow, red, white RCA connectors will provide a better picture.
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03-14-2012, 07:18 AM
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Howdy and welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy the site. Looks like your getting the info you needed. Plenty of great folks here and I'm sure you'll make many friends. Congrats on the new to purchase and hope you really enjoy all your travels. Be safe and Happy Motoring!!!!
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03-14-2012, 09:15 AM
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There are two ways to hook a TV to a Sat receiver (Well 3 now days)
1: RF, Chan 3 or 4
2: A/V (Red, white and yellow ended cables)
3 (the new one): HDMI
If you are using 2 or 3, you do not worry about "Air" or Cable"
If you are using 1: Since both Channel 3 and Channel 4 are the same on all services.. You don't worry about Air or Cable UNLESS...
If it is a modern ATSC type television. .Choose cable. IF it offers "Analog or Digital" choose analog.
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03-15-2012, 06:01 PM
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THANKS
Thanks all for the imformation on the TV setup, I appreciate it, and also thank you for the warm welcome to this forum.
Darrell and Carol
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03-15-2012, 06:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wa8yxm
There are two ways to hook a TV to a Sat receiver (Well 3 now days)
1: RF, Chan 3 or 4
2: A/V (Red, white and yellow ended cables)
3 (the new one): HDMI
If you are using 2 or 3, you do not worry about "Air" or Cable"
If you are using 1: Since both Channel 3 and Channel 4 are the same on all services.. You don't worry about Air or Cable UNLESS...
If it is a modern ATSC type television. .Choose cable. IF it offers "Analog or Digital" choose analog.
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How about Composite, with a blue, red, and green plugs, along with a optical cable for sound ?
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03-16-2012, 01:29 PM
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Yes, I forgot those. However those come under the Option 2/3.. Audio Video or HDMI cables.
On, and for the person up-thread who said it only matters for channels 13 and up.. WRONG. I am not sure about channel six or 5, but it matters for channel 7 and up for sure.. If you look at a spectrum chart you see
6mtr ham 2 3 4 5 6 {bunch of stuff including police, fire, ems, ham, weather, pagers and more} 7,8,9,10, and so on.
Cable companies pollute that "Bunch of stuff" when the cable leaks cause they put channels there. Trust me on that. I KNOW.
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