If you rely on a TV antenna to receive television broadcast and are shopping for a new TV, you should check whether that TV has a digital tuner.
LG's Laser TV has a digital tuner and two 10W built-in speakers embedded in the projection unit to support virtual surround sound for a more authentic cinema experience at home.
Right now only about 20% of Americans are capable of receiving a digital signal through a digital tuner built into the television set itself, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
Rounding out the bunch are the 46-inch KDL-46V2500 and 40-inch KDL-40V2500, which also give you 1, 920 x 1, 080 pixels, but no digital tuner, one less HDMI input, and no option for interchangeable, multi-colored bezels as with their XBR2 counterparts.
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But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
Users can also take advantage of a digital TV tuner for watching and recording their favorite TV programs.
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With a VESA mount, you can hang it in your bedroom and use Windows Media Center to pull in content from your main PC or even plug in a digital cable tuner and use it as a stand-alone entertainment system.
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In an age where companies are scrambling to combat the sinking prices of LCD HDTVs, Uniden decided to make no bones about where it was trimming the fat, as it introduced a pair of 1080p sets that are devoid of an internal digital TV tuner.
SiloconDust let us kown that it would be the first to certify a live TV tuner as a DLNA Digital Media Server, easily enabling premium cable TV to more devices with its existing HDHomeRun Prime network CableCARD tuner.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata introduced the device himself, explaining that it came with a tuner to receive digital broadcasts, which for now will only be picked up in Japan.
There's also an FM tuner, integrated digital voice recorder, a microSD memory card slot that can handle microSDHC cards up to 8GB in size, support for playback of MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files, and enough battery life for playback of at least 30 hours of audio and 6 hours of video.
They can also watch and record digital TV with the optional TV tuner and remote while seamlessly integrates multiple media sources into a single device.
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First, the A500: this guy sports a 16-inch, 16:9 format display (1366 x 768), a TV-tuner for both analog and digital DVB-T programming, Harman Kardon speakers and HDMI ports with REGZA LINK technology.
We're not exactly sure who this one is going to appeal to (supposedly this one is for the ladies), but the 7270 is one of Nokia's steadily number of flip-phones, and sports a stainless steel cover, a built-in FM tuner, a VGA quality digital camera, a 128x160 pixel main display, a smaller external display.
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This desktop comes with a built-in television tuner, stereo speakers, a digital video recorder, Blu-ray burner and a DVD player--all its innards built behind a sleek high-definition, flat-panel screen.
Pairing the n9 with four Niveus Digital Cable Receivers, an external, dual CableCARD tuner device, allows cable subscribers to simultaneously view and record eight standard definition or HD programs.
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You can also access music play lists and song information with the remote as well as operate the TV tuner, video and even an on-screen slide show of digital photos.
Just a simple tuner and antenna will do the job if your local station has a digital over-the-air signal.
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