<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;"><div class="Ih2E3d">> >> are receiving as there is no mapping of qam transport channels to actual
<br>> >> channels. In fact you will have to manually figure out what each channel<br>> >> is and then manually enter the data into the database and then will have<br>> >> to look up what the xmltvid number is for that channel. I would strongly
<br>> >> recommend that you spend the time getting a firewire stb set up.<br>> >> Although quirky its far far easier than setting up a hdhr. Here in<br>> >> Florida the cable company (comcast) has a nasty habit of moving channels
<br>> >> around every few weeks which is completely transparent when using a stb<br>> >> but will cause you large amounts of frustration when all of a sudden you<br>> >> start recording garbage or nothing at all.
<br>> ><br>> > This wasn't true for me at all. I just got an HDHR and I set it up<br>> > with the over the air listings in my area, scanned for the channels<br>> > (on cable) and it automatically found them an mapped them to the
<br>> > actual channels. The listings are working and I didn't have to do<br>> > anything else.<br>><br>> Is this a common thing, or rather rare?<br><br></div>I don't know, this is the first time I've set one up.
<br>The instructions that I saw said I'd have to edit the channels to get<br>it to work, but I didn't.<br></blockquote><div><br>I recently purchased a HDHR, and the setup was absolutely painless. I plugged it in, scanned the channels (OTA), and that was it. I was up and running in a matter of minutes. No mapping or entering data into any database.
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