On Jan 9, 2008 1:09 PM, Florin Andrei <<a href="mailto:florin@andrei.myip.org">florin@andrei.myip.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Question for the US users:<br><br>I've heard that cable companies are required (by law? regulation?<br>agreement?) to include in their cable listing all stations that would<br>otherwise be accessible in that area OTA.
<br><br>My question is - does that apply to just the content, or the actual<br>format too? In other words, if a station can be received in HD OTA, does<br>that mean that it will be received in HD via cable too? Or can the cable
<br>company just provide that station in SD, even though OTA it's being<br>broadcast HD?<br><br>I'm asking because I need to decide whether it's worth the trouble to<br>install an antenna on the roof, or whether just using cable is fine.
<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Florin Andrei<br><br><a href="http://florin.myip.org/" target="_blank">http://florin.myip.org/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></font></blockquote></div><br><br>Plug your tuner into your direct cable line and see what you can pick-up. I don't trust my local cable provider so for me, it took about an hour to setup a $30 antenna (and $20 worth of RG-6) on my roof and get plugged in to numerous OTA HD broadcasts in my area (I live less them 30 miles from Downtown Atlanta, GA).
<br><br>Josh