[mythtv-users] HDHomerun signal problem. Will HDHomerun Prime help?
Eric Sharkey
eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Jan 18 19:49:26 UTC 2012
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Mark D. Montgomery II
<techiem2 at techiem2.net> wrote:
> They encrypted everything they can so you have to use a DTA or cable box to
> see all of your subscribed to channels.
Or a cable card device.
> The standard cable box will feed 4:3 and 16:9 feeds, but Comcast processes
> everything out of HD down to SD (unless you are paying for the HD cable box
> and service, which we aren't).
That sounds reasonable, doesn't it? I don't see how you could
complain about choosing to rent an SD box and then only being able to
get SD out of it.
> Sometimes they severely botch this process and CROP instead of converting
> some feeds (I've seen this on football games where both sides of the feed
> are cropped off - real classy guys).
That's not really Comcast's doing, but more of a Motorola/Scientific
Atlanta/etc. issue. Many of the SD boxes won't output anything at all
on an HD channel, so it sounds like you're already ahead of the game
there.
> So when he uses the composite input, he gets all the comcast channels as fed
> through the cable box. When he uses the coax input, he gets all the
> unencrypted channels straight through the line (including the full HD
> versions of the local channels that Comcast screws up when they process
> them).
The hardest part with the direct coax connection is finding the
channel you want to watch, since they don't publish the frequency
mapping. This is the reason many techs say that this can't be done.
Eric
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