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Getting cable TV through the wall without a box

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Syringer

Lifer
With Comcast cable and no digital cable, do you need a TV cable of accepting a digital signal in order to get a signal? Or will any TV do? If the former, is there a way converter to get it working?
 
TVs capable of getting digital signals have been around for like 20 years. Besides, if you are using cable (not OTA), you'll get whatever the cable companies have unscrambled and your television is capable of handling.
 
HDTV with QAM tuner -- you should at least get the locals (hopefully in HD). You may get the analog channels too assuming Comcast is still sending that signal out.

Analog TV -- you will get the analog channels only assuming Comcast is still sending that signal out.

The only "converter" you can buy/rent is the one supplied by Comcast. I'm sure you could find another one out there...but it probably wouldn't be legal.
 
Depends on the market. In some places (like mine) you "have" to have a box to even get standard tv. You can get like 4-5 local channels and that's it (this is for a non-hd non-digital tuner tv)

With a digital tv I get more, but not all. No comedy central.
 
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