Are there any reasonable options out there that can receive over the air ATSC signals and convert them to QAM, outputting them at a selected frequency and program #?
Google searches turn up many- but it is difficult to track them down, or if you do they are outrageously priced. I did find one affordable offering from LG... an OAR unit designed for the hospitality business that was about $1k. But apparently it has been discontinued.
Where I live our local cable system carries two stations in SD only from a neighboring market. I'd like to pick up one of these transcoders to "replace" the SD versions with the HD versions from my OTA antenna. Yes, I realize I will lose the other SD channels on the same frequencies as the channels in question. I don't watch those anyway however, and they aren't even in my channel list currently. There are two other "local origination" channels available that I could use to add the other two OTA channels I don't get on cable. I wouldn't have guide data, but I could get everything on one box as opposed to having one TiVo dedicated to cable, and another dedicated to antenna. I could add cablecards to both.
Google searches turn up many- but it is difficult to track them down, or if you do they are outrageously priced. I did find one affordable offering from LG... an OAR unit designed for the hospitality business that was about $1k. But apparently it has been discontinued.
Where I live our local cable system carries two stations in SD only from a neighboring market. I'd like to pick up one of these transcoders to "replace" the SD versions with the HD versions from my OTA antenna. Yes, I realize I will lose the other SD channels on the same frequencies as the channels in question. I don't watch those anyway however, and they aren't even in my channel list currently. There are two other "local origination" channels available that I could use to add the other two OTA channels I don't get on cable. I wouldn't have guide data, but I could get everything on one box as opposed to having one TiVo dedicated to cable, and another dedicated to antenna. I could add cablecards to both.