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

[Joe Silver]

On 11/29/06, ICMan <icman at eol.ca> wrote:
>
> Jesse Dhillon wrote:
> > Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> >
> >> Your HD-5000's can't tune those channels because they are analog NTSC,
> >> and those cards simply don't have that capability.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks Carl. So I understand that the pcHDTV-3000 cards have this
> > ability (it says on the product lineup that they can do NTSC tuning). Do
> > you or anyone else have experience or knowledge about getting basic
> > cable from this method? Thanks,
> >
> > Jesse.
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> Hi Jesse,
>
> I just put together a box using the pcHDTV HD3000 card.  To configure
> it, I had to completely ignore the instructions.  I had to set it up as
> an Analog card, not a DVB card.  For whatever reason, I could not get
> the analog channels to be recognized in DVB mode, even though the
> channel scanner said that the signal level was 100%, and the S-N ratio
> was really high for every channel.  I think this might be because I am
> in Toronto, and Rogers encrypts all its QAM channels, even for regular
> digital cable.  (CRTC sucks!)
>
> The instructions say to configure it as a DVB card, and then there will
> be a screen for you to configure the analog portion.  You can try that
> too, if you want.  But after days of failures, setting it up as an
> Analog card fixed everything for me, and now it works great.
>
> ICMan
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I also recently setup a box using HD3000 and it was very simple, especially
following the Fedora Myth(tv)ology guide.  Using Myth 0.20 from ATRPMS with
FC6 has been great because the HD3000 was automagically installed (except
for the firmware files), and all I had to do was add it as a DVB card.  In
Myth 0.20, within the DVB setup for it are options for the analog mode of
the card.  The setup is super easy using OTA ATSC, but a little more
complicated for QAM, since comcast here doesn't provide channel info for the
unencrypted channels.  I had to manually view each QAM channel detected in
the channel scan and edit the channel settings in mythweb (XMLTV id, chan #,
callsign, etc).
-JS
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