<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Steven C. Liu wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> Brian Wood wrote: <BIG><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT> I don't have a TV connected to that specific cable, but I have a fully-functional signal coming out of a common splitter that goes into a XP box with a WinTV PVR-150 card.<BR></BIG></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Well a cable or connector could be bad, or the splitter itself. The only way to be absolutely sure is to connect a known good TV set to the exact same connector.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BIG> <BR> As far as HRC and IRC are concerned, I don't understand. I'm not using a cable box - it is just a straight cable from the outside (it is not a signal issue since all is fine on my XP/PVR-150 box that shares a cable into a splitter).<BR> <BR></BIG></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>HRC/IRC have nothing directly to do with a cable box. There are (in the USA) three possible standards for frequency allocation - STD/HRC/IRC. Without going into detail it just means that the carriers run on slightly different frequencies. Often the AFC in a tuner can make up for the variances but sometimes not.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But if you have a 150 similarly configured that is probably not your problem. You should do the standard PVR thing of powering down for several minutes to be sure your card is not storing some oddball setup parameter though. You could swap the PVR cards between the machines to see if the problem follows the card, PIA but definitive.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is there a pattern to the channels that you do get with ivtvctl ?Perhaps you are only getting the lower frequency channels, or the higher ones ? This can get very confusing because the actual order of channels is 2-6, 14-22, 7-13, 23-60 etc. If you are getting or not getting only channels 5 and 6 you almost certainly have an HRC/IRC problem. Only getting the lower or higher frequencies could point to a connector or splitter problem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Reset the 350, and if you still have trouble try to get more info about exactly what you can and can't get, maybe we can figure out from the pattern what's going on.</DIV></BODY></HTML>