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Only need the first 6 stations: 49, 19, 44, 28, 23, 10.
I am looking for comparisons, recommendations, and/or advice on which 32" HDTV's are better at receiving OTA signals.
My mom just got a RCA LED32B30RQ HDTV to replace the 19" Sharp CRT TV with Zenith DTT901 converter box in her bedroom. She was previously able to get all the above stations perfectly with just rabbit ears and UHF loop connnected to the converter box. However, when I hooked up that antenna to the new set, not one was detected with multiple auto channel scans nor manually entering the channels. I tried moving the set all over her house: she gets ABC in the living room, PBS in the guest room, and finally the set found all but channel 10 (VHF) when placed in the middle of her dining room table.
Since all I did initially was unplug the balun from the converter box and plug it into the new TV, (going from full coverage to nothing) I am assuming that the new set just doesn't pick up digital OTA signals as well. When the converter boxes first appeared, she tried an RCA box which only detected three channels at her house, while the Zenith pulls in ten.
She flat out refuses to get a rooftop antenna. I have been looking at the homemade designs on Youtube, etc., but they won't help with the VHF channel. There aren't any tree or terrain issues.
Thanks for reading all this.
