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TIDALWAVE

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Topic: Sanity Check - - Cable TV
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 at 9:26am

Unlike the cable box outlet you may have at home, a campsite cable feed should be 'live'. No cable box descrambler needed. Your television is digital and only needs to be plugged in and set to 'auto-channel search' (or whatever is the command).

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Posted: 17 Apr 2012 at 7:37am

I'm not sure about the "cable tuning" part if your question, but yes, that's how you could hook up the physical cable wire. All the TV's that I camp with have the ability to "auto-scan" for the available channels once you physically have the cable connections made.

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Posted: 16 Apr 2012 at 8:01pm

Have the 177 with the build in CD/radio/tv unit. Works fiine but it's back in the bed area and where we would most likely want to watch TV would be up front in the dinette area. Have a nice super thin 21" LED TV that I would like to mount just to the left as you walk in the door.

Do I understand correctly, that if I am at a campground that offers cable TV hook up at each site that I could hook up the cable on the outside of the Pod, disconnect the cable that is going to the factory box and plug in a cable that was feeding my 21" flat panel. Guessing that all of the "tuning" of channels has been done by the campground and all I need is a TV that is capable of locking onto to the available channels ? The TV I have doesn't have a cable tuner built-in but from what I understand I shouldn't need that.

What say ye ??

MJ

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TIDALWAVE Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 21 Nov 2009 Location: MINNESOTA Online Status: Offline Posts: 315	Topic: Sanity Check - - Cable TV Posted: 17 Apr 2012 at 9:26am
	Unlike the cable box outlet you may have at home, a campsite cable feed should be 'live'. No cable box descrambler needed. Your television is digital and only needs to be plugged in and set to 'auto-channel search' (or whatever is the command).
	TIDALWAVE

this_is_nascar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466	Posted: 17 Apr 2012 at 7:37am
	I'm not sure about the "cable tuning" part if your question, but yes, that's how you could hook up the physical cable wire. All the TV's that I camp with have the ability to "auto-scan" for the available channels once you physically have the cable connections made.
	"Ray & Connie" - 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road

Footslogger03 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Location: Laramie, WY Online Status: Offline Posts: 362	Posted: 16 Apr 2012 at 8:01pm
	Have the 177 with the build in CD/radio/tv unit. Works fiine but it's back in the bed area and where we would most likely want to watch TV would be up front in the dinette area. Have a nice super thin 21" LED TV that I would like to mount just to the left as you walk in the door. Do I understand correctly, that if I am at a campground that offers cable TV hook up at each site that I could hook up the cable on the outside of the Pod, disconnect the cable that is going to the factory box and plug in a cable that was feeding my 21" flat panel. Guessing that all of the "tuning" of channels has been done by the campground and all I need is a TV that is capable of locking onto to the available channels ? The TV I have doesn't have a cable tuner built-in but from what I understand I shouldn't need that. What say ye ?? MJ
	Livin' the Dream ...'Slogger