My hitachi digital hdtv has always had cable hooked to it,and now i have no cable and i cant get the digital chanels to work with the antenna

do you have the air option in the scan menu see
http://tv.manualsonline.com/manuals/mfg/sanyo/dp42841.html
page 9 important fact cable digital gets wiped by air digital channels

You may be able to get around this via a digital hd tv decoder box and then have it on a hdmi input on the TV as a backup to the cable if you can't have both cable digital channels stored and aerial digital channels stored

Unfortunately, you need a set-top box. The Hitachi 65F59 has an ATSC (digital OTA) and NTSC (analog) tuner. It doesn't have a clear-QAM (unencrypted digital cable) tuner.

There are a few DVR set-top boxes with QAM tuners that you can buy separately. (You will need to make sure a given model is compatible with your service. FIOS uses a different option on the Cable Card than other providers.) Alternatively, you can get a cable box from your company.

Retrevo has the manual for this Hitachi TV here: http://www.retrevo.com/support/Hitachi-65F59-TVs-manual/id/371ci977/t/2/ . You will need to enter a code to access the PDF.

If you want OTA HD, you will need to determine the correct antenna for your area and the direction to the transmitters. (External antennas pick up more stations. In some areas amplification may be needed to get a good signal.) See antennaweb.org or tvfool.com for searches on the appropriate antenna to get a signal and where to point the antenna. Antennaweb assumes an external antenna but is very conservative in the received channel list. You would need to set the TV signal input to Air and rescan for channels if you choose to go with the OTA signal.

I wish that I had better news for you.

Cindy Wells

you need a antenna with digital capabilities.you can generally find them cheap and make sure tv is set on antenna instead of cable.

you will have to hook the tivo to the cable box and reconfiger, you will have to hook up the ir eye from the tivo to the box so thay can talk. the newist tivo is realy cool it take a cable card and can record muilt chanels but your old one when configured with the cable box will only record one chanel at a time and you wont be able to watch another channel wile its recording

Make sure that you are not scanning in cable mode, to get the local channels you will probably have to scan antenna, this will be in tuner set-up

I checked out the manual for a similar model tv from polaroid...there's only one input for the coax cable from your antenna, so if the antenna's cable is connected to this input, this couldn't be the problem. What I do have trouble with on my own tv is that my indoor antenna location can make huge differences in recognizing all available digital signals. I could even have the antenna facing a different direction, and get different results. There are a few sites you can google for to find your distance from the broadcast towers, too. This might help to determine if you need a stronger antenna. It's a painfully long procedure to try different angles and positions for your antenna each time you run a channel scan, but this might be the only thing that would prevent you from picking up the digitals. I try the highest spot possible, and the one closest to the outdoors. Good luck, I hope you can pick them up soon! (Any antenna works...the industry tries to pass off "digital/hdtv specific antennas" to make a buck. I've used a cheapy rabbit-ears antenna and was able to bring in digital channels, as long as your tv or converter box is converting the signal.)

check your unit if it is cable tv compatible.then, hook your cable to antenna in.then do the manual tunig/search for channel.if not,you'll need to buy a cable converter ,much better if it has audio/video out.

On your remote, select input as TV, then verfiy that you have set to Antenna, Then scan for channels.

yes i have same tv it has no digital tuner >( you must get a converter box

http://www.shopping.com/xPF-Hitachi-46F500
HDTV-Ready - Requires separate receiver to view HDTV signals.