[mythtv-users] Analog Cable Channel Blacked Out?

[John Welch]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:38 AM, William N. Powell <billpwl1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> John,
> Comcast here in the Baltimore-DC Area pulled all of the analog
> broadcasts of the DC Network stations and substituted standard
> definition encrypted digital feeds instead. So all of our NTSC TVs and
> tuner cards and digital TV's without cable boxen suddenly went black on
> those channels.  The HDTV with Cable box continued just fine.
>
> Then on the 23rd of August, they completely changed the entire channel
> lineup.  We now have quite a number of unencrypted digital feeds in the
> lower 130 channels that we can get with a digital TV without a cable box.
>
> Thought that might esplain the problem that you saw.
>
> I am now trying to get the digital tuner card working with the new cable
> lineup as well as getting the schedule purged of the old channel lineup.
>
> Bill
>

Hmm.. that's interesting.  I wonder if Comcast was doing some type of
test run in my area, seeing as how it is now back to "normal".  Could
be a sign of things to come.  If they did the same thing in my area
that they did in yours with flipping the channels to unencrypted
digital feeds that wouldn't make me unhappy as I have both a pcHD3000
and an HDHR, which I actually prefer over the PVR-150.