digital tv tuner for kenwood kvt 512

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Topic: digital tv tuner for kenwood kvt 512

Posted By: jc411911
Subject: digital tv tuner for kenwood kvt 512
Date Posted: October 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM

Okay so I hope some of you all experts can help me with my situation. I have a Kenwood 512 installed in my 08 Ford F-150 I am interested in hooking up an external TV tuner into the av input. I was wondering if anyone can recommend a tuner that will allow me to hook up in the Av input and that is also digital as analog wont work for much longer ? Now a question i have is if there isn't a digital tuner would I be able to just use a regular TV tuner and add a digital converter box and get a inverter ?

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Posted By: khnitz
Date Posted: November 19, 2008 at 10:47 AM

Since no one has answered your question yet, and I'm in the same situation (wanting to find a digital TV tuner for the car), I'll share what I've learned so far.

From my understanding, the current US digital TV standard does not allow for receivers to deal with multi-path received signals well. The can work past this for a receiver/antenna that is in a fixed location, but as soon as the receiving antenna is in motion, the multipath reception is constantly changing - a lot. The digital receivers currently cannot adequeatly cope with that.

Last I read, companies and the FCC are exploring an overlay signal to aid mobile DTV reception - but I know of no products available, yet.

Hopefully someone with even more knowledge can chime in and correct any errors in my understanding.

Posted By: jc411911
Date Posted: November 19, 2008 at 6:25 PM

Hey thanks for repyling. didn't rthink anyone was going to respond. yeah what you said is exactly what I had read somewhere . so I guess until a good alternative comes about were either only watching it while still or not at all.

thanks again

Posted By: myelo
Date Posted: November 21, 2008 at 6:45 PM

I have a Kenwood system w/the analog tuner (Kenwood also) and have emailed them about this. I emailed them before and they indicated they had no tuner for digital here, but they had one for England. I don't know how their system differs as far as digital signals go, but... anyway, they indicated at that time that they were working on it....this was in 2007! We'll see what they have to say after this latest email. I am really going to be upset if I can't get my TV to work.

Posted By: myelo
Date Posted: November 21, 2008 at 6:51 PM

As a matter of fact, here is the tuner available in England.

KTC-D500E

Digital TV Tuner Unit (DVB-T)

https://www.kenwood-electronics.co.uk/products/car/multimedia/multimedia/KTC-D500E/

Posted By: khnitz
Date Posted: November 21, 2008 at 7:14 PM

Yes, the European digital broadcast standard is different from what they implemented for the US. Like with the analog TV signals, too (NTSC = US; PAL = Europe).