Hooking up digital cable to my new tv

[REDGAR]

So this tv has picture in a picuture set up where you route your cable into the tv first then into the cable box.

I got a digital cable box and when I do this my digital features won't work.

I have to run the cable into the box first but then the thing does not work.

Anybody have a similar setup that wants to discuss it?

I worked around it by splitting the cable in and sending one into the box and the other into the TV but just wanted to see if anyone else has had this experience.

[VetBoyZR1]

If your cable is like my satellite dish, you can only get one channel at a time. This renders the PIP feature useless. I believe that will only work with an analog feed where you can view all your channels thru the TV tuner. Also, with a digital service you might as well get a monitor TV without any tuner at all, since you are only tuning at the converter box and have a fixed feed into the TV set. You may be able to use it if you can hook an old fashioned antenna as a feed to your set, and use that for the PIP, but it will only work for the broadcast channels.

[REDGAR]

That is kind of what I did by splitting the cable. When watching the cable box I can use the PIP because a second cable goes into the tv in.

The tv has this by pass thing where you go into the tv, out the tv into the cable box, out the cable box and back into the tv.

That was working and my digital channels were working but not my digital features like the program guide and on demand stuff.

So I had to go the split route.

It is a shame we buy these expensive tvs and you use your stereo for sound and you cable or dish for video.

[Stephen DeFazio]

for it to work right you need two tuners in your tv I used my vcr as the second tuner. even if you have 2 tuners when you use the cable box you lose that second tuner.