This seems as good as anywhere to post this question. A friend of mine just bought a Oleiva LCD with HD Tuner built in. He has not made the switch to HD cable box yet and when hooking up his regular cable box used the 1980's mindset. He took the coaxial output from the cable box and looked for a coaxial input on the TV...of which the only input is the "antenna" input for the over the air HD.

He's going to undo it when he gets home from work, but out of curiosity, can doing something like this damage the internal tuner? Makes me wonder how many people out there that buy an HD TV and then hook it up via coaxial!

Coax interconnects are all at low RF power--can't hurt anything.

joe / holl, hi... as long as on the subject, I have Dish non HD programming, I got a new sony 50" HD TV.

As for an OTA ant: Might ya know... the ant. I end up buying... it should be connected to the "Cable In" coax conn on the TV, correct?

Not knowing exactly what to get last week, got an in house/set top RCA "Amplified HDTV Antenna" [model ANT 525]. Figured a) that it is not the rgith antenna, and b) something wrong with it cuz power light did not come on. Anyway, did not use it. So after reading more, will seek the correct antenna. thans for any comments you may have about this.
Bottom line is I ''believe'' I should be able to simply conn. an antenna to the coax 'cable' connector on the tv to get local channels in HD, am I wrong?
THX. Golf :)

Split from OTA Reception thread.