Dtv Sd-40 + Hdtv?

[clevere1]

Hey guys. I just got a nice plasma TV. According to the plasma's manual, you should hook up your antenna for over the air HD, to your sat receiver, and then to the back of the TV.

My problem is that when I do this, the TV can't get the HD signal. Is this a limitation of my SD40 receiver (I think that's the model, hughes 40 gig style)?

If it is, can anyone recommend a good way to hook the tivo directly to the TV without using coax? (Like S-Video or something similar (I'm not sure if/how that would work).

Thanks for the help!

[litzdog911]

Connect your over-the-air antenna directly to your TV. The DirecTV/Tivo has no off-air tuner, so it can't do anything with that signal anyway.

Connect your Tivo to your TV using the SVideo connection for the best video quality. Connect audio using the red/white RCA connection.

[clevere1]

Connect your over-the-air antenna directly to your TV. The DirecTV/Tivo has no off-air tuner, so it can't do anything with that signal anyway.

Connect your Tivo to your TV using the SVideo connection for the best video quality. Connect audio using the red/white RCA connection.


Thanks! Any ideas for a VCR with coax, and RCA out (I don't think it has video out)

[litzdog911]

Thanks! Any ideas for a VCR with coax, and RCA out (I don't think it has video out)

How many inputs does your TV have? Are you using an Audio/Video Receiver?

[clevere1]

How many inputs does your TV have? Are you using an Audio/Video Receiver?


The TV has 2 composite, 2 HDMI, and 2 RCA w/SVIDEO jacks.

Yes, I have an OLD RCA receiver that has AV plugs.

I currently have

SD40 --> TV using Svideo on input 1
DVD player -- >(RCA video, optical audio) Receiver -->> TV input 2 (Soon to be just HDMI)
VCR -->> TV via Coax, so I can use the VCR and still get my HD channels.

That sound decent? The main reason for this entire thing, was to get my HD channels while being able to use my sate receiver on the coax of the TV, but that doesn't work :(