<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cummings@kjchome.homeip.net">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Batshua bat Yehonatan wrote:<br>
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So, right now it's coax to converter box. There's one coax cable going from the wall into the box, and one coax cable going from the box into my tuner card. Is that the "wrong" setup such that I will have unsuccessful attempts at finding channels?<br>
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I think that you will only find the channel that the box is tuned to.<br>
But, once again, you have avoided the question, what is the box producing? Analog or digital signal?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Box is digital.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
My box from RCN takes a coax in from the "wall" and sends a coax to my analog TV. The output is an NTSC signal on channel 3. When I tune my TV to channel 3, I can watch whatever channel the cable box is tuned to watch.<br>
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What are you expecting your cable box to produce for output?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you asking what level of functionality I am expecting should the box be connected to the PVR? Or are you asking what kind of connection I would be using?</div>
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Should I instead be using a coax splitter? <br>
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Using how?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, I was under the impression you meant to connect a coax splitter to the wall output so that both the tuner and the box were connected to the wall. Nevermind that. </div><div>
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I imagine then all I'll get is OTA, which sure is better than what I'm getting now (literally nothing), but obviously, if the converter box will play nice and let me watch, you know, Cable TV, that would be ideal. <br>
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I know the cable box will let you watch cable TV, that's its purpose.<br>
It will succeed when you have everything cabled up correctly. We're in the process of getting you set up correctly.<br>
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I feel a little bit like the hologram in "I, Robot". My programming is limited, you will have to ask the right questions.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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I'm still in the very early stages of setting up. The OS sees the tuner card. Everything is hooked up. Am I starting in the wrong place by trying to use scan? Where should I be going from here?<br>
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I would start by plugging the cable from the wall directly into you turner card and do a channel scan. That will tell you what unencrypted on your cable that can be tuned directly.<br>
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wall <==coax==> tuner card<br>
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If you wish to view/record any of the encrypted channels, you will need to change your setup to include your convertor box.<br>
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wall <==coax==> converter-box <==coax==> tuner<br>
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In the second case, your tuner card will only see what the convertor presents to it (it does *not* un-encrypt everything at once, it only un-encrypts the single channel it is tuned to, and only if it beleives you are subscribed to receive that channel). It will send to your TV<br>
(or in this case your tuner card) only the channel that it is tuned to.<br>
How it sends that channel depends on how it was designed. If its like my convertor box, it'll send it on NTSC channel 3 (or 4, sometimes they have a switch in the back to be able to select which). Other more modern boxes might have a component-out which can be fed directly into your (newer) digital TV. I haven't seen a convertor box which outputs an ATSC signal (they may exist, I haven't seen one). So, if you are doing this setup, you need to know how to configure your tuner card to properly receive the signal from your convertor box.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Does this make sense?<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Oh, okay, so on your system, it's plugged in old-timey VCR style. Our TV gets its channels in on a component channel.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, the plan then is to connect PVR directly to the wall-cable, and what, run scan again and go from there?</div><div><br></div><div>I think I'm starting to understand your strange new language,</div>
<div>Batshua</div>