T&T: Digital TV Question

[Frank Burrows]

>Jim:

I just tested a similar deal this weekend. I am using a Shakespeare 
amplifier with an outside antenna but I am sure it is similar. What I had 
to get was a converter box with an analog pass through feature. When it is 
turned off it passes the existing signal through the box. When the power 
switch is turned on it converts the digital channels to channel 3. You have 
to search around because most of the boxes do not have this feature.

Frank Burrows     Destiny   1979  43'  Viking MY
      Piney Narrows     Chesapeake Bay


>Question
>
>Can I insert one of the digital tuner boxes between the Glomex
>amplifier/AB switch and the TV?  When I am on dockside cable the
>digital tuner would be seeing an analog signal on it's input side and
>when I am on the antenna it would see a digital signal.  Is it smart
>enough to distinguish?  Will the Glomex antenna and amplifier even
>work with digital signals?