On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Dhillon</b> <<a href="mailto:tobor@berkeley.edu">tobor@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I have a Toshiba 62hm15a, a television which has some kind of cable<br>tuner built-in, besides the CableCard business. I can take my cable<br>directly from the wall and plug it into the TV, and receive all my basic<br>
cable channels (up to channel 80 or so, the only ones I care about).<br>I've read up about how Comcast (my provider) usually encrypts channels<br>or makes them otherwise unavailable without going through an STB.</blockquote>
<div><br>These channels are not QAM at all, but plain old analog NTSC. It sounds like they're not even encrypted.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Rather than asking questions about how to make this work with my tuners<br>(two Air2PC HD-5000's) what I'd first like to know is if anyone knows<br>why my TV is capable of decoding them just fine? Is there some secret<br>
agreement between Comcast and Toshiba that lets it do this, provided the<br>TV does not produce an output signal (i.e. the TV is DTCP compliant). Or<br>is it that (hopefully) those channels are broadcast clearly, and any QAM
<br>tuner should be able to grab them. Any thoughts?</blockquote><div><br>Your HD-5000's can't tune those channels because they are analog NTSC, and those cards simply don't have that capability.<br><br>Carl Fongheiser<br>
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