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I recently switched from cablevision to fios tv. I have a Panasonic TV with a qam tuner and I am unable to pick up any of the clear signals. I was able to do this with cable. The wireing is the same. I have a splitter before my tv one goes into the HD box then hdmi out to hdmi1 on my tv. Cable out of vz box to cable in on my dvd recorder...hdmi out of my dvd to hdmi 2 on my TV. The other cable coming out of the splitter goes directly to cable in on my TV. I do this si I can record any channels coming from the Verizon box then switch over to the other input and watch my local channels. I do a digital scan....it finds all the music stations in the 80`s, but only finds the channel logos...like cbs DTV on 2.1, ABCHD on 7.1, ABC NOW on 7.2,etc. no picture.
I tried going directly to the TV without a splitter, same results. It worked just three weeks ago with cable..Is there a difference between cable signal and verizon signal? I am at wits end!
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It is my understanding that the digital conversion now requires a set top box on each TV. If your area has 'cable' that does not require a converter box, either they have not yet completed the switch to all-digital OR (most likely this is the case) they have their own converters somewhere in the line coming to your house. My QAM tuner used to work before the switch but does not any more. I got theset top box, though, and all is good.
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If you have one TV in your kitchen (Sanyo) that has a QAM tuner and its getting OTA channels straight from the cable and another TV (Panny) that is NOT getting OTA channels straight from the cable as i see it you have two things to consider, either your Panny does NOT have a QAM tuner or its screwed up some how or needs a firmware update perhaps.
To test this find the splitter and switch the connections for the kitchen Sanyo TV is and where the Panny is, if the kitchen TV still gets OTA channels the Panny is the problem!
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@cjacobs001 wrote:It is my understanding that the digital conversion now requires a set top box on each TV....
This is not true. If you have a TV with a QAM tuner you should be able to get the local SD, local digital (HD), music, and PEG channels as they are sent in clear QAM.
That being said there are still sporadic reports of tuners not working most likely due to a PSIP (channel mapping) problem. This was supposed to be fixed across the whole Verizon footprint last fall but may not have been fully addressed.
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Thanks Joe
I did exactly what you said. I ran a cable from the splitter behind my panny to the back of my sanyo...no problem it picked up all the clear channels. I know it must be an issue with the panny tuner not liking the vz signal. I called Panasonic and they did send me a firmware update. It did not change anything. It must be something with the psip mapping. Pansonic will not help anymore because myTV is 14 months old and out of warranty.