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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Johnny Russ <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:JRuss@mit.edu"><JRuss@mit.edu></a> wrote:
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:02 PM, James Orr <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:james.orr7@gmail.com"><james.orr7@gmail.com></a> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Clark <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeff@vacantcanvas.com"><jeff@vacantcanvas.com></a> wrote:
Comcast in Boston makes you use their box since all the channels are
digital, which means that I definitely have to use a set-top box to
control my channels (right?).
I'm curious though: when I hook my Mythbox up to my set-top box and
change the channel to start a recording or whatever, won't the OSD
from the Motorola box be recorded onto the Mythbox recording? Is
there any way around this?
You should be able to configure how long the stb osd is displayed. I never
see it on MythTV anymore, though I used to in an earlier version. I use a
serial cable for changing channels, might be different if you are using an
ir blaster.
Some people are assuming you have HD, but a digital box isn't necessarily a
HD box.
I'm not running anything HD (since I have neither an HD tuner nor an
HDTV), so everything's in SD. Comcast just told me that all the
channels are encrypted and that I would have to have a box to get
anything besides local channels. (Sarcastic love towards Comcast!)
So I have to use a box, and it's an SD box.
(If anyone is IN Boston and currently uses Comcast without a set-top
box, feel free to let me know - that would be much preferred,
obviously. Every time I call them up, there's a different answer from
their support guys.)
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I have Comcast in the Belmont (Boston suburb). I just have the standard
cable setup and I get 70 or so channels with no set top box. When I was
going to upgrade to the digital package they told me that I would need the
box to get all of the higher up channels and VOD stuff. They said any TV
without the box would still be able to get the lower channels. Unfortunately
I am not sure where the cutoff was. But it would be easy for you to just
plug your cable straight into your TV and see what channels you get. I
believe it is most of the channels under 100.
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Interesting... do you get NESN and ESPN/ESPN2? These are the biggest
things I'm worried about.
It's kinda sick, yes, but I need my Bruins and Sox :)
I'll try plugging directly into my TV tonight and see how that works.
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Yes, I get those channels. They are 49-51 in my line up. I checked and
I get basically all of the channels through 71 and then a couple of
random ones in the 90's. Again I don't have digital cable so that may
change things. But as I understood it digital cable subscribers would
get everything I currently get without using a box, and would get all
of the additional channels with the box. In my MythTV backend setup
under video sources, I had to use us-cable-irc channel frequency table
to get all of the channels to come in properly. I think if you use the
regular us-cable table with Comcast here then channel 5 and 6 will be
messed up and a few others (I jacked up the first few episodes of Lost
that I tried to record before I figured that out). Hopefully that will
help.<br>
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