[mythtv-users] Chicagoland services - Comcast, WoW, DirectTV, Dish...

Donald Webster fryfrog at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 19:56:38 UTC 2007


That sounds about right, except that if you subscribe to cable to get
Discovery, TLC, etc... you will have to use a cable box to get it in
HD.  You may also need it for some of the SD channels.

On 4/3/07, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Donald Webster <fryfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Each cable box ends up as a "tuner", so if you have two cable boxes
> > you have two tuners.  In my case, I have two cable boxes *and* two
> > air2pc cards, so I have 4 "tuners".  2 that get almost 300 channels, 2
> > that get 6 :p
> >
> > If you *have* a cable coming into your house from the cable company
> > for any reason, I would bet $1 it has QAM HD signals for the *free to
> > air* stations on it.  You might also get some panzy ass SD channels in
> > QAM too, I seemed to get the SD version of all the HD stations as well
> > as what looked like a few PPV *preview* channels and a *TON* of
> > shopping channels.
> >
> > Is that what you were asking?  My 2 air2pc cards are totally unrelated
> > and not dependant on the 2 firewire STBs.
>
> hmm, ok.  so theoretically, if i had an air2pc card i could plug my
> cable into it and get the basic service again and possibly my local
> OTA HD channels.  if i rented a cable box i may be able to use the
> firewire out to get other channels as well.
> well if the HDHR does QAM maybe i'll look into that route.  if that
> works then maybe i'll subscribe for service to try and get Sci-Fi,
> Discovery, TLC, History, etc.
> it would be nice if there was an HD solution for satellite since
> DirectTV will be adding a ton of content this fall.  oh well...
>
> thanks :)
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