Contrary to what other folks have said the Cable Cards ARE available from Insight. I'm not sure of the monthly fee. Not many folks take this option as the cards can be a little finicky, but they work. John
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Andy Arnold <andyarno...@mac.com> wrote: > Any cable TV experts in the group? > I can't figure this whole racket out... I have a couple HD TVs with > built-in tuners... Insight wants $15 per month for their DVR which is > supposed to carry many more HD channels than if I plug the cable wire > directly into the HD TV. But this is a crude solution for many reasons (one > of which is that you can't sync the boxes) Plus I don't watch that much TV, > so $30 a month just for the box is crazy. I had heard that some TVs can > contain a cable decoder card that will allow the signal from all of > Insight's channels to come thru in HD. But now most manufacturers have > abandoned that strategy because all TVs have a digital tuner built-in and > if your cable company is outputting unscrambled channels then you can tune > all the stations through the TV without a cable box or CableCard. Is the > problem that Insight is behind the national curve and still scrambling most > of their stations? Stop the madness! Would love to hear what others are > doing about all of this... > > BTW, this is still a Mac topic because I have an AppleTV thrown into the > mix as well :-) > > thanks > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > -- U-2 & SR-71 web page http://www.blackbirds.net Those who would sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither -Benjamin Franklin Read the Constitution - It's Interesting! http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html Blog: http://johnsstone.tumblr.com/
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