Just a brief update. We have now reconfigured the hook-up of the
Comcast Cable box and we are receiving all stations that are included
in our plan. (Think NO "extra's.") We have not yet received the RCA
converter, but I'm looking forward to trying that in different
locations, and with different antenna configurations, to see how it
works as well. This has all taken way too much time and thought. What
happened to the "old" days when you bought a TV (or whatever), brought
it home, plugged it in, and it worked????? I'm really missing those
old days. Needless to say, I was much younger then. :)
Mical Wimoth Carton
chrper...@aol.com
On May 1, 2009, at 12:09 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
I have set up several converter boxes for myself, my office and my
Mom.
In every case the process was very quick, about 5 minutes. Maybe
another
5 minutes to get the converter box's remote to control basic
functions
for the TV.
What took time ws playing with the antenna. Antennaweb was a big help
because it showed me the direction to the station's broadcast
antennas.
The good news in DC is that they are almost all located on the hill
top
at Wisconsin and Brandywine. But as I said before, pointing the
antenna
was not a logical process. I did whatever the box's signal meter
indicated was the strongest signal. So once I got a good signal
from that
collection of stations the job was done and I had my box rescan.
In the end I did lose some stations, but for the stations I did
get, most
had multiple subchannels. E.g. WETA has 4 channels (unfortunately 1
& 4
seem to be the same program most of the time, I hope they improve
that).
So despite losing some channels I have more subchannels so more
programming choices in total. I stopped worrying about the stations I
lost.
Channels 101-200 is a cable thing. I don't know anything about cable.
BTW, this is not OT. Digital broadcast is definitely about computers.
Odds are you need to buy a Clear QAM converter box for cable- QAM is a
decoding scheme for digital cable systems. Apparently the cheap
converter
box program prevented boxes that included QAM decoding from being
included
in the coupon program.
I bought a DVD recorder with a Clear QAM tuner from WalMart for around
$150. All the useful looking QAM decoder settop boxes seem to come in
around $100. There are dongles for computers and things that are
less but I
don't see an easy way to use them with your TV.
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