[mythtv-users] QAM channels through my TV (but not my tuner)

[John Drescher]

On 11/29/06, Jesse Dhillon <tobor at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Toshiba 62hm15a, a television which has some kind of cable
> tuner built-in, besides the CableCard business. I can take my cable
> directly from the wall and plug it into the TV, and receive all my basic
> cable channels (up to channel 80 or so, the only ones I care about).
> I've read up about how Comcast (my provider) usually encrypts channels
> or makes them otherwise unavailable without going through an STB.
>
> Rather than asking questions about how to make this work with my tuners
> (two Air2PC HD-5000's) what I'd first like to know is if anyone knows
> why my TV is capable of decoding them just fine?


I have comcast too. Are you sure that the first 80 channels are digital as
my channels up to
72 are all analog. And for me with my digital tuner in my sony HD wega I get
a few digital
cable channels but these are only the unencrypted channels and the 40+ music
channels.

John
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