<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Mike Rice" <mikerice1969@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:26:38 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] All clear QAMs gone in Portland, OR<br><br><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Stefan Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefan_jones@comcast.net" target="_blank">stefan_jones@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<b>From: </b>"Mike Rice" <<a href="mailto:mikerice1969@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikerice1969@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:45:42 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] All clear QAMs gone in Portland, OR<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Stefan Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefan_jones@comcast.net" target="_blank">stefan_jones@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Well, I got my HDHR+Cablecard hooked up just in time!<br>
<br>When I tried the TV this morning the unscrambled digital channels were gone from Comcast's lineup.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Noticed that this morning as well when my HDHR recording failed. Did Comcast announce they were planning this? </div>
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<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">My two digital cards and my TV's coax were all on the same splitter. I attached them to an indoor antenna and did a quick scan. The pcHDTV card found the major networks plus a bunch of minor channels. So, I could still use that card. I'm not sure if the Hauppague 2250 have as good a receiver. I'll do some test recordings tonight.<br>
<br>My TV picked up 24 stations, including the *five* from one religious broadcaster and one ANALOG station.<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">
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</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>I have two HDPVRs that handle 95% of my recordings. The 2 tuner HDHR was grabbing the clear QAM channels occasionally on busy nights. I guess I will try OTA with these and see how that goes.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">With your HDHR Prime are all the non-premium channels available or is Comcast blocking (not copy freely) some channels? I definitely don't want to go that route if only the local channels will be available (i.e. what used to be on clear QAM).</div>
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</blockquote>I don't know yet what recording restrictions have been placed on the cable channels.<br><br>I started a couple of recordings last night, but they were both regular networks.<br><br>When I get home I'm going to edit my channels and encoder priorities a bit, and then try to record some of the extended cable channels.<br></div></body></html>