My TV is now hooked up to satellite . I hooked up this antenna to tv but nothing Do I need to disconnect all satellite cables like VCR ?
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You probably could use a splitter but the reason I purchased the antenna was to replace the cable network
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I do not know allot about antennas. But I did not get this one to work. I spent 100 dollars at best but and now I am very happy. This could be because I just got one of the bad ones.
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No you may not have to disconnect your satellite cables. If you have Directv there is a input terminal for a tv antenna on the back just connect the cable from the pre-amp marked to tv to it and it should show a picture.
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Coax cable goes from RT8000 straight to your Satellite Reciever,then out to the TV. (the antenna sends the satellite signal to the reciever and is converted to RF that the TV can recognize most generally on channel 3 or 4)
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I'm an Old School holdout. Never had cable, never will. There's enough on broadcast TV to distract me from real life. Odd you should ask this question. To answer, YES. I had an old giant CRT running off an Insignia DTV box without any problems right up to the day the tuner in the TV went belly up. I retained the DTV box to feed my VCR (Yes, I still have several of those) and added the Vizio with a splitter. The Vizio did not like this arrangement and refused to accept some channels. I finally had to feed the Vizio from another antenna outlet across the room. This solved the problem (mostly) but I have an annoying coax cable running through the bedroom. Depending on the weather the picture and sound will break up at times. If it really gets unbearable I watch the programming through the DTV box that far outperforms the Vizio direct tuner. Unfortunately this arrangement only allows a reduced screen and fuzzy captions. In my opinion the tuner capture capability of the Vizio is borderline and a real disappointment. I'm running a roof mount antenna in a suburban area.
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Hi Dominic, There is no cable included with the VCR for that, but you should not need one from box to VCR. The cable box should come with a standard coax cable to connect it to the TV. Unscrew that from the TV and plug it into the VCR input port, then run another coax cable from the VCR to the TV. If you find yourself without a spare coax cable, they are very cheap. You can get the screw-on kind or the press-on type if your fingers lack dexterity the way mine do. A cable 2-3 feet long should do it, but just be sure it is a coax, not an RCA. Rodger
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To record from an off-air or cable signal, you will need an external piece of equipment with a built-in tuner (cable, satellite, or off-air converter box). No tuner means there is absolutely no antenna hookup in the unit. Although you can connect more than device to the unit, the way the DVD burner works means you can only record one channel at a time, just like an old-fashioned VCR. If two shows you've scheduled overlap, the one that starts first gets priority. There are other, more expensive units that do have tuners, but all of them are going to be limited to one channel at a time. That's just the limitations of the technology.
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It's a basic connection: Just tightly connect the open end of the round coaxial cable (from the Philips Antenna) by pushing or screwing the cable connector into the antenna input on the back of the television. And sorry for the delayed response.
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Bob: Check with your cable or sat box company. Generally not good for boxes (electronics below 40*F. TV's same way. I ran tie in to sat feed off one of the coax's. Check on google search for more answers.
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This is how mine is setup; VCR connected to TV so I can view VHS tapes on TV channel 3. My VCR out w/grex to my Recorder in, my recorder out to TV - I hooked to AV but you can connect w/HDMI - I don't record TV so my cable connects to my TV, but, just like the old days of recording VHS, if you were trying to record TV you would have to connect your cable through the recorder and watch on the HDMI port that the recorder is set to and run your channels through the recorder. If you have satellite or cable TV you will need a special decoder as paid services generally won't run straight through your VCR or DVD recorders, not a problem if you have antenna. Hope this is helpful This is how mine is setup; VCR connected to TV so I can view VHS tapes on TV channel 3. My VCR out w/grex to my Recorder in, my recorder out to TV - I hooked to AV but you can connect w/HDMI - I don't record TV so my cable connects to my TV, but, just like the old days of recording VHS, if you were trying to record TV you would have to connect your cable through the recorder and watch on the HDMI port that the recorder is set to and run your channels through the recorder. If you have satellite or cable TV you will need a special decoder as paid services generally won't run straight through... » Read More This is how mine is setup; VCR connected to TV so I can view VHS tapes on TV channel 3. My VCR out w/grex to my Recorder in, my recorder out to TV - I hooked to AV but you can connect w/HDMI - I don't record TV so my cable connects to my TV, but, just like the old days of recording VHS, if you were trying to record TV you would have to connect your cable through the recorder and watch on the HDMI port that the recorder is set to and run your channels through the recorder. If you have satellite or cable TV you will need a special decoder as paid services generally won't run straight through your VCR or DVD recorders, not a problem if you have antenna. Hope this is helpful « Show Less
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I mounted my antenna near my old satellite dish and used that cable and it works great. I would imagine that cable wouldn't be any different...coax is coax. Also, in case you are interested, I am using a TIVO dvr which costs $15 a month which allows me to record regular TV shows and also streams Netflix, Pandora etc...
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u will get ur local unscrambled channels,i have two of these and love them it will take a while to go thru the channels and set them up. No coax port on a tv? whats next? looks like u will have to rent a box maybe that was the plan all along by not adding a coax port. would like to know what brand it is if u dont mind.Or is this a monitor/display u are using?
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I bought this to do just that. You do need a short coaxial cable to plug the splitter into the TV coaxial input and then plug the antenna in one and the Satellite DVR in the dual side of the splitter. I'm able to use the TV remote to switch between over the air digital channels or switch to channel 3 for the DVR. I don't get any interference from the DVR anymore and it works well for my purposes.
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This is not a tuner. If your tv is an analog one you need this. It works with your antennae to receive regular tv stations. If you have cable or satellite you don't need it. Your DVD/VHS recorder should connect directly to tv with RCA jacks.
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If you plug your components and cable/satellite into receiver and from there to TV you should not have to have the TV on to use the receiver. It does show the graphical menu on the TV, but not necessary.
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The antenna connection on back the of your tv, you should have one for cable and one for antenna make sure you connect to antenna not cable one
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I don't know why you would need an antenna with satellite TV, but you can buy a coax adapter that has one connection on one end to connect to your TV and two connections on the other end to connect two devices (satellite and antenna).
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Yes to your questions; however, the TV should connect to the wall cable outlet to allow the signal to fed through the TV tuner and then the VCR cable connects to the TV output signal plug! Good luck!
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This device allows you to combine the signal between the satellite dish and a satellite receiver with any UHF/VHF/Cable signal on to one Coax and then to separate the signal on the other end. The UHF/VHF/Cable video signal can go either direction. It sounds like you get TV from Direct TV and Internet from Time Warner. If that is the case, the only way you would use this device to go to three rooms would be if you have separate satellite receivers and cable modems in each room. Probably you want to have one cable modem and then have ethernet cables or wireless to the other rooms. In that case you could use this to get the satellite and cable signals to the cable modem and main receiver. This device allows you to combine the signal between the satellite dish and a satellite receiver with any UHF/VHF/Cable signal on to one Coax and then to separate the signal on the other end. The UHF/VHF/Cable video signal can go either direction. It sounds like you get TV from Direct TV and Internet from Time Warner. If that is the case, the only way you would use this device to go to three rooms would be if you have separate satellite receivers and cable modems in each room. Probably you want to have one cable modem and then have ethernet cables or wireless to the other rooms. In that... » Read More This device allows you to combine the signal between the satellite dish and a satellite receiver with any UHF/VHF/Cable signal on to one Coax and then to separate the signal on the other end. The UHF/VHF/Cable video signal can go either direction. It sounds like you get TV from Direct TV and Internet from Time Warner. If that is the case, the only way you would use this device to go to three rooms would be if you have separate satellite receivers and cable modems in each room. Probably you want to have one cable modem and then have ethernet cables or wireless to the other rooms. In that case you could use this to get the satellite and cable signals to the cable modem and main receiver. « Show Less