[mythtv-users] DTV: It Has Begun

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 20:07:20 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:59 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Wed, September 10, 2008 12:52 pm, John Drescher wrote:
>>> I'm kind of wondering what's going to happen with my Comcast STB.  I
>>> have
>>> their digital tier, which naturally comes with a set-top box.  But I
>>> don't
>>> have an HDTV set, so they gave me an STB that can't decode HD channels.
>>> (If I try, I get audio but no video.)  Presumably at some point they're
>>> going to have to swap it out for a different one, but I haven't heard
>>> anything about it yet.  Probably they'll use that as an excuse to jack
>>> up
>>> my rates, when it happens.
>>>
>>
>> Connect the cable line directly to the TV and you should pick up the
>> locals in HD with only the extended basic service.
>
> You missed the part where I said I didn't have an HDTV.
>
> I'm just thinking that as they start migrating channels to HD, more and
> more of them are going to be unviewable on my STB, which can only display
> SD digital channels.

Are you implying that the current SD channels are going to be going to
an HD-only status?  I'm pretty sure that's not the case.  Once again,
digital != HD.


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