Do not need the Digital Tuner

[hookman]

The View Sonics have a Digital input just below the analog one so a Tuner should not be required on the new 5ths with the hi def TVs

[rv_nut]

Even those with the regular tube TVs manufactured in the last year and a half have digital tuners. My 2007 Mountaineer came with a 25-inch analog TV. It went bad last September (2007) and Keystone replaced it with the same model TV, but it has a digital tuner, as required by the FCC. It is not high definition, however.

So, if you have a late model RV without a flat-panel TV, you may still have a digital-capable TV. Even if it's not HD, you can still watch the digital channels and the picture is better than the analog ones.

Ken

[sreigle]

If this is the case then you should now be picking up digital stations (the "dot" channels like 25.1) now when using the antenna. I would think that would be one way to make sure you have a digital tuner. We replaced the Insignia in ours with a flat screen but that Insignia had a digital tuner and could pick up the digital stations. It could not, however, display them in high definition. Rather, it rendered the picture in the older format. This Insignia was a replacement for our dead original tv. It was about a year and a half old or a bit more. The digital stations looked pretty good, even rendered to the old format.