ATTENTION : Digital TV Needs Batteries

ATTENTION : Your Digital TV needs Batteries! No AC during a power outage!!



Most digital TV's need batteries not household current cause during a power outage there will not be any power available to operate digital TV sets. Also most of them have the less than ''13 inches and have to be portable to be classified as emergency equipment. Most digital TV most of them operated from the main power supply from the wall or from a huge charged battery or USB power supply and most from your car. If you do not have a car power supply or power generator you're going to be out of luck

1. If the ATSC tuner to be required for storm use, then the power supply has to be a low voltage power supply like around the minimum of 4 AAA or 4 AA batteries and has to be the same size as a DVD modulator.

2. Most portable DVD players that sell for more than $99 need to have a built in ATSC tuner built into it for digital TV reception. And also have a antenna to come with it that receives signals from all over within a 50 mile radius.

3. Small HDTV's require alot of power to operate and will not be suitable for harsh conditions while a ordinary black and white TV set can operate normally with just a 6 pack of D cells. Most
of the power has to power up the circuits that require more current than the 5'' inch black and
white TV set we normally use during an emergencies. If the TV cannot be B/W then most
makers need to engineer and build an affordable TV set that receives SDTV and is in color and
sells for less than $99.00.

4. Can your converter box that you received from the coupon program operate off of batteries?
NO! Most new type require at least a A/C power supply of 120 volts 5 Amps of current to operate to convert the SDTV signal into a regular standard NTSC signal. Most foreign manufacturers have not made yet a ATSC tuner that operates even on a standard set of C cell
batteries. So when a hurricane or some major natural disaster hits, you will need to fill up your
gas powered generator to power up your old TV and your converter box, and you know how
gas prices will be. Cause in 2009 all signals will be HD only signals and your old TV that's even
just 5'' inches will not pick up the digital signal most of it will be off air. So how are you going to
track the storm now??

5. Most times during an emergency, all new and old sets will be off cause of its power guzzling
configuration it needs.