If you subscribe to basic cable TV service you, you do not need to use a digital converter box to view material provided through your cable connection. Other televisions in the house may need a converter.
Features
Any TV set that is hooked up to your basic cable service does not need a digital converter box. The cable box, in effect, functions as the converter box. Digital cable boxes modify incoming digital TV signals so they may be viewed on analog TV sets.
Exceptions
If you have an analog TV set that is not hooked up to your cable service, to watch over-the-air local TV channels on this set, you do need to use a digital-to-analog converter box. Also, to use an analog VCR or DVD recorder to record over-the-air local TV channels, this device needs to be hooked up to a converter box.
Verification
To determine if a TV set, VCR or DVD recorder is analog or digital, check the device's user manual for its specifications. If the specifications indicate that the device is equipped with an NTSC tuner, the device is analog. If it's equipped with an ATSC tuner, it's digital.
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