[mythtv-users] mythtv newcomer.. need help setting up live tv

Michael Ford mford2 at comcast.net
Wed Oct 20 15:53:53 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 20 October 2004 09:24 am, Tim Sailer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:43:18AM -0400, Evan Burrows wrote:
> > ok to answer some of the questions.. I have my cable input running to
> > a splitter ( i am too cheap to buy another tuner card.  So one runs to
> > my cable box and the other to my myth box.
>
> Move the splitter to your cablebox output. The tuner doesn't know what to
> do with the digital input.
>
I don't think this is true in all situations.  My cable system broadcasts 
regular cable alongside digital cable so I can run the coax directly to the 
TV card.  I don't get all of the digital channels but that's okay.  Moving 
the splitter to the cablebox output will only work if your cablebox has 
passthrough.  Mine does not, it will only output the channel selected by the 
cablebox .  

-- 
Michael Ford


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