Is my TV Digital?

How can I tell if my TV is Digital?

What is the best way to find out?

Is my TV Digital?
The short answer in your case is - we don't know! But here are some cluse to help you determine:

Here is what we do know
As a rule-of-thumb TV sets bought during or before 1998** do not have a Digital Tuner, they are fitted with an Analog Tuner, so as your TV was purchased around this period, this makes it more difficult to identify it.

The best way to find out is look in the "user manual" for your TV - look out for the ATSC in the text or the specification. It may also use the word "Digital" or "DVT". Look at the back of the TV at the the manufacturers label or around the antenna socket it may say "ATSC", "DVT" or "Digital input" (either in raised or impressed lettering in the plastic).

TV manufacturers produce TVs with different tuners (receivers) depending on the market place it was being sold to.

Some are fitted with an ATSC tuner for over-the-air transmissions from an antenna. These can be either analog or DVT. Others are fitted with a QAM tuner that is designed to accept Cable TV. Some are fitted with both.

What you can try
As you can see it is not a simple answer. But you can try the following: Having connected your TV to your antenna and performed a channel scan, look at the TV Menu, check through the channels listed on your TV. If you notice that the 'main stations' contains 'sub-channels' in addition to regular ones, you have a Digital TV.

We are sorry we can't be more specific than that.

** Note: As many retailers were still selling old stock in the years following this date, TV sets purchased after this date could also have an analog tuner as well.

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