hi guys, I had couple of question to ask. First is that I bought a Samsung DTB-H260F HDTV receiver and should come in the mail in day or so. The question I had is that the unit has NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner (???) built in. I was wondering that can take a existing Time Warner Cable line coming in my house and plug it straight in. I am using the line for my cable modem but I want to use it for HDTV. Or do I have to buy a antenna to get HDTV OTA. If I have to use an antenna what one should I buy for indoor. I live in nyc so the tower is 13 mile way. Thank you guys

"I was wondering that can take a existing Time Warner Cable line coming in my house and plug it straight in."

Most likely they are broadcasting locals in unencrypted QAM so it wouldn't hurt to try. As for an antenna, start with antennaweb.org and also check the local reception forum for a thread for your DMA and see what others are doing around you for reception.

If you buy an antenna, you'll need a VHF/UHF combo, most notably for WABC-DT, which'll move to VHF in 2009. Will this be an attic mount? Roof mount? Indoor-only, and if so, do you have a window that faces the Empire State Building?

Also note that cable QAM signals often don't remap correctly, or map oddly (like two channels on, say, "14-5"), and can also change frequencies a lot, so if they're suddenly gone, do a rescan and they should come back. If they don't (which happens on rare occasion in some places), perhaps they were encrypted or placed out of the range of the QAM tuner (or a filter was installed barring access to channels above a certain frequency).

Also, the DTB-H260F does not have an NTSC tuner. But you can connect a pass-through coax out from the tuner to your TV, and any analog signals you may be getting can then be picked up with your TV's NTSC tuner (assuming it has one) after a scan. You'll just need to change to the "TV" input to view those, then.

The Sammy doesn't have to be turned on to pass the signal through, but the signal is noticably stronger when it is on.