[mythtv-users] tuner card

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 00:53, Neil Cooper <neilcoo at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> I know that OTA broadcasts in the US aren't analog anymore, but annoyingly, there are still some cable companies that broadcast in analog (Mine for example: Cox in AZ).

I do not know if they have finally converted, but I recall
that the FCC gave some extensions to (what I remember
as) very small, very rural, very low power OTA TV stations
whose cost to convert was going to be very high compared
to their available revenue stream.  I seem to recall the
final final deadline for those stations was 2015ish (although
they could convert early).  I presume if one is receiving
those stations one would know about it.

As for analogue cable, in almost all of Comcast territory
they now also broadcast the (few remaining) analogue
channels in digital on another frequency(*).  Clearly every
provider is different (and each franchise has its own
special-ness).

As a check whether a HDHR can get the channels one
wants from your provider, SiliconDust has some information
on their website (main page, Support, Channels)
which will display what others can get in your area
using the HDHR.

Gary

(*) I presume when Comcast decides they need yet
    more bandwidth for another 10,000 shopping
    channels (and if they are not yet ready to roll out
    the next gen IPTV, and if they have not started
    using mpeg4 encoding), they will migrate those
    few people still subscribing to basic basic analogue
    only to DTAs and finish their analogue termination.