[mythtv-users] What can be done about a USA cable provider encrypting local channels?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/29/2007 08:56 AM, William Munson wrote:
> Recently Comcast took over our cable system and now they have decided to 
> encrypt all the local channels which really sucks since I am too far 
> away from the transmitters to get them as OTA.

I can't get any of my local stations using analog (and I have a 16 foot
antenna in my attic), but I can get them all in digital--with very high
signal strengths.  The digital cliff is a wonderful thing.  It makes
class "B" reception a thing of the past.

For analog, the stations could write me off as having class B
reception--which is really unusable (basically static with the hint of a
picture in the background).  For digital, that same signal quality
results in too many errors to decode the stream--meaning no
reception--so they have to do better with digital transmission.

If you haven't tried digital OTA, it may be worthwhile to do so.

Mike