Off the air HD antenna with HDMI?

[blujacket]

Originally Posted by Turomania

So I should be able to get a decent picture quality with the regular cable coax that comes with the OTA antennas?

I see what your saying. Since there's input coming straight to my tv from the OTA, then I could output sound via optical from my TV to my receiver.

hhhmmmm now where getting somewhere.

Again I apology for my newbee questions. I just recently consider an over the air antenna and just dont know much about them yet. I have always used regular cable.

I have the LC-46D92U Sharp LCD

You should get a great picture from ota. Just go buy a cheap antenna and see what you can tune in. Your tv has optical out, so you can run a cable to your receiver to get your sound.

[Turomania]

Originally Posted by blujacket

You should get a great picture from ota. Just go buy a cheap antenna and see what you can tune in. Your tv has optical out, so you can run a cable to your receiver to get your sound.

Very cool.

The only thing the bugs me about that is my TV manual says that the only way get get full 1080p is via my HDMI's and my Components.

I know we can't fuall 1080p via the OTA, but I'm wondering how much less HD I'm getting using only the cable coaxil input that most all OTA antennas come with.

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by Turomania

The only thing the bugs me about that is my TV manual says that the only way get get full 1080p is via my HDMI's and my Components.

I know we can't fuall 1080p via the OTA, but I'm wondering how much less HD I'm getting using only the cable coaxil input that most all OTA antennas come with.

Nothing less. The coax cable is not carry an HD picture. It's carrying an ATSC TV signal to the tuner in your TV set. The tuner produces the HD 1080i or 720p picture.

[jschaffe]

Originally Posted by blujacket

Your tv has optical out, so you can run a cable to your receiver to get your sound.

I have the same Sharp LC-46D92U TV. Before I hook it up using a wall mount, I want to know which inputs feed their audio through to the optical digital audio output connection. The manual is useless on this one. Does anyone know?

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by jschaffe

I have the same Sharp LC-46D92U TV. Before I hook it up using a wall mount, I want to know which inputs feed their audio through to the optical digital audio output connection. The manual is useless on this one. Does anyone know?

Most TV's only output OTA audio signals via the optical out.

[Anthony P]

I think most have answered your questions, I will just add

use http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?opti...pper&Itemid=90 enter your area and then use the map to pinpoint your place, it should tell you what channels you can receive and what you need antenna wise

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by jschaffe

I have the same Sharp LC-46D92U TV. Before I hook it up using a wall mount, I want to know which inputs feed their audio through to the optical digital audio output connection. The manual is useless on this one. Does anyone know?

Lots of sets will feed audio from external components such as set top boxes and disc players out the optical port. But, the output is usually limited to stereo. You can generally only get DD 5.1 from the set's internal tuner and you can never get DTS to pass through a TV. Televisions are not designed to be audio switchers. That's work for receivers.

[jschaffe]

Originally Posted by BIslander

Televisions are not designed to be audio switchers. That's work for receivers.

Tell that to my wife...she hates, hates, hates using both the TV and a receiver! I had nothing but trouble in our old setup.

Besides, my Denon 3600 receiver doesn't have HDMI, or I would have done it anyway!

And frankly I hate the duplication os source switching in both the TV and Receiver, seems much simpler to do it in the TV and feed the audio out...

Of course, the high-end receiver circuitry is probably better anyway, but none of this solves my problem...no HDMI on the receiver.

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by jschaffe

Tell that to my wife...she hates, hates, hates using both the TV and a receiver! I had nothing but trouble in our old setup.

Harmony remotes solve all those family issues. We have a receiver without HDMI, a plasma with a single HDMI input, four disc players, a cable DVR, and an HDMI switch. You push one button on the remote and all the devices power up/down and make whatever switches are needed to route video and audio. The buttons on the remote then control the appropriate devices for the activity - volume on the receiver, channels on the cable box, shuttle controls on the DVR, whatever you need them to do. One remote does it all. My wife and kids, including an eight year old daughter, have no problems running everything. The remote may be the single best piece of AV equipment we own.

[groove93]

This is the back of my LCD.

The cable off by itself with the lil blue strip is a Coaxial connection to my OTA Antenna.

The Clear cable is an Optical Cable going into the Optical in of my Receiver. This enables me to hear Dolby Digital 5.1 audio coming from many broadcasts through my reciever.


There's alot of great information given in this thread. I would start out small with regards to an Antenna just to see what type of reception you can receive. If you're able to get a good number of stations, then take the antenna back within 30 days and upgrade to a larger one to really dial in those stations.

Remember that this is a digital signal and it does not degrade like the old analog signals of the past. If it's in, it's in. If it's out, it's out. This is why I say, start out small.

[Coolmeadow Kid]

I know I'm resurrecting an old thread...please don't kill me...I didn't want to rehash information that was already here to find.
So far I've not been able to get my ARC on my Samsung UN55D7000 to play the audio when on antenna through my Yamaha RX-V671 receiver. I have the HDMI cable from the ARC input to channel 1 on the receiver. I have no problem streaming content off the internet from my computer, but it goes to the receiver first. Would it work to get a tuner card for the computer and hook up via HDMI to the receiver to get the sound? Right now my video is built into the motherboard. I'm guessing to keep from having to switch cables to go back and forth to the monitor, that I would need to add a video card, or is there a way to "split" the HDMI signal to both? Thanks for any insight you can offer. Jim.