Only picking up one digital channel

I don't understand your question, are you saying it only picks up the digital channels but nothing else? There is no analog channels anymore, so there is only digital to pick up!

You may ne3ed to buy a digital to analog converter box.

Please elaborate on the age of the tv. If it is an older tv it is analog, and wont pick up stations that are all digital.

Are you trying to pick up standard analog channels (the kinds that have a fuzzy gray screen when there's no signal)? Those stopped functioning in 2009 when the nation ended the analog broadcast. You can only get digital channels now, except for a low-power broadcast station here and there. Nowadays for analog, TVs mostly pick up only radio stations.

make sure your tv is set to pick up the signal it could be cable digital or analog channells.there should be an option for this in the menu.

Make sure you have the menu set on digital channels not cable. Set antenna to air to pickup digital hd channels.

This is a newer TV. It doesn't have an analog tuner. You will have to buy the analog to digital converter box and re-scan your channels, or switch to a digital cable/dish provider.

No,if this tv is an analog tv mean tv have a big back cover and have a heavy CRT-(tv tube).Must have a good antena like a digital antena or move antena around to left or right to pick up channel 11,might lost some other channels than.This tv now can't pick up digital signal now without the tv converter box if u want to pick up free DTV air broadcasting tv signal,it all broadcasting in DTV free air in all digital now.

The answer to this question can get a little complicated. Lets tackle it in two parts. First the last part; the part about picking up channels as decimals. With analog TV transmission, it took the full television broadcast channel to transmit one standard definition TV program. The newer digital transmission system uses some advanced video compression and audio compression technology to reduce the data needed to transmit the pictures and sound which allows the same bandwidth to deliver either High Definition Television programming or MULTIPLE channels of Standard Definition programs. So in your example above, you use to watch one channel of programming on TV channel 4, but now the TV station can broadcast multiple channels of programming on channel 4, sot they delineate the programs with a decimal point. So 4.1 it the first program on TV channel 4, 4.2 it the second program on TV channel 4..... Well, I hope you get the idea.

Now for the hard part of your question. I believe that before the transition, even with your new digital TV, you were still enjoying the analog broadcasts from your stations. Your VCR picked them up and recorded them and your digital TV could tune them in and you watched as you had always done in the past. After the transition you noticed that your VCR could not record anymore and your digital TV had discovered the digital channels that replace the analog channels. To remedy this situation, your VCR will need the aid of a DTV converter box to tune channels, and you may have to reconfigure the way your TV and VCR are connected. The best resource that I can give your for the reconnecting is the website http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/converterbox_vcr.html. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Scroll down to the Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 section about “Set-up #2: Watch One Channel while Recording a Different Channel”.


Hope this helps

You need to check your antenna strength, this is done through the digital converter box. Those channels may have lowered their broadcast signal and your antenna cannot pick them up anymore. You may need a outdoor antenna to pick up the channels. These can be purchased at any home improvement store. There is no such thing as a digital antenna. They are broadcasting digital signal instead of analog over UHF stations instead of VHF in most markets.