Re: MS Vista with service pack 1
- From: "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:38:10 -0500
"El Castor" <No_One@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fv9tc4536ent8898o53k3hb68e0apllk8i@xxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:26:27 -0500, "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"El Castor" <No_One@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:52:38 -0500, "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
If you've got a card like my Hauppauge HVR1600 with a QAM tuner, as
well as a cable with unencrypted digital (as opposed to analog), what
you have to do (using the Hauppauge WinTV software -- not Media
Center) is to connect the cable to the digital input on your card and
tell the card to scan for digital channels -- which can take a long
time. Whatever it finds will be added to the list of available
channels in WinTV, thereby getting around the necessity of being able
to manually tune to 103.1, 103.2, etc. Then you have to reconnect the
cable to the analog input, and let the NTSC tuner scan for analog
channels. If you have both analog and QAM channels, you will have to
use the WinTV (for a Hauppauge card) software because Media Center
can't deal with the digital stuff -- and you will also need to use a
splitter so that your cable is feeding both the analog and the digital
inputs on your card. If your cable provider is someone other than
Comcast, your chances of success are increased since I understand that
Comcast uses non-standard frequencies for it's clear QAM transmission.
Funny that my Toshiba tuner doesn't have a problem with Comcast, but
my Hauppauge apparently does. Grrrrr.
I have done all of this and the channels are all there, but no signals yet.
I'll wait for the change to digital and check back. I can always pay cable
for their cable box.
Little or nothing is going to happen insofar as cable is concerned
when the switch to digital happens. That only effects over the air
transmission of analog, which will end next February. The FCC is
requiring cable to support analog until 2012. This is a bummer because
analog hogs a lot of bandwidth that could be used by cable companies
to transmit more and better HiDef. By the way, if you are able to get
over the air TV with rabbit ears, there are a lot of stations that are
already broadcasting in digital. Old fashioned rabbit ears work pretty
well for digital. All you have to do is connect them to the ATSC
digital input on your TV card.
No chance with indoor antenna, not even the local station, and outdoor is just a little better. Speaking of outdoor, anyone with satellite?
--
Glenn
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