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Re: [RFI] RFI on New Digital TV

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Subject: Re: [RFI] RFI on New Digital TV
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 11:55:10 -0700
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On 5/20/2025 11:28 AM, Tim Duffy wrote:
I have six LG 4K and 8K TVs here - no RFI. Maybe the Yamaha issue is the 
problem - I don't know...

Tim's right on suggesting not to rule anything out. I have a big Yamaha RX, 10-15 years old, that routes audio and video through it in several formats. When I installed it, I choked cables to speakers and antennas before turning it on. All those interconnect cables are possible antennas for Pin One.

Another point -- in the world of consumer products, the word "digital" is very much a marketing term. For example, digital antennas. :) In the case of a TV, the only technically correct use of the word is that the RF tuner and demodulator for digital signals and some logic to support those signals, is built-in, rather than an exterior box. My 10-15 year old Sony had such a tuner for first generation digital TV standards built in.

A new digital TV Standard (NTSC 3.0 I think it's called) was introduced maybe 5 years ago, and is being pretty widely adopted major markets. It has many interesting capabilities, including the ability to transmit pay-TV, in which the decoders are connected to the internet and make extractions from our bank account. Current generation TV sets will have a new generation tuner built in, and some are better than others. There are also several outboard tuners that that feed audio/video inputs of existing sets.

73, Jim K9YC

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