Travel Technology - hotel hdtv??

I recently went on a business and stayed at candlewood suite. I noticed their tv is the old color tv not the hdtv lcd. I looked in the back of tv and noticed there is no digital tv converter box. Just the old coax connected to the tv. How did they get this old tv to work? Does anyone know? I thought all tv have to be hdtv.

The digital TV signal is being coverted by the cable or satellite dish provider the hotel uses. A converter box is only needed if the TV does not have a digital tuner and is receiving the signal wirelessly using a "rabbit ears" antenna.

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Cholula
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You can see the same thing in action if you have cable service at home. The coax into your house (almost always) carries an analog signal as well, so you can just plug it straight into the back of your analog TV and it can receive channels. The mixture of channels that you will get may vary somewhat depending on the operator though.

As stated above, the DTV converter box is only applicable if you're receiving over the air (OTA) signals, with an aerial attached to the TV.

I have noticed more and more that the hotels I stay at are starting to upgrade their old CRT tv's with 32 inch flat panels, its a nice change but they mount them on the wall now and they are too far away from the bed.

I have noticed more and more that the hotels I stay at are starting to upgrade their old CRT tv's with 32 inch flat panels, its a nice change but they mount them on the wall now and they are too far away from the bed.I read an amusing article a year or so ago about how armoire sales have dropped drastically in recent years in large part because hotels (and consumers) no longer need to buy them to hide CRT TVs.

I recently went on a business and stayed at candlewood suite. I noticed their tv is the old color tv not the hdtv lcd. I looked in the back of tv and noticed there is no digital tv converter box. Just the old coax connected to the tv. How did they get this old tv to work? Does anyone know? I thought all tv have to be hdtv.

Also, you can buy a brand new TV, which is not an HDTV. It just needs to be able to accept digital signals off the air or be connected to cable or satellite. HDTV is not the same as digital TV. A TV can be digital and not HD.