John,
It does seem that the cards are still available from Insight (I
called) for approx $2 per month. It seems the TVs that can accept them
are gone/going.....
Hmmm... I'm trying to search the archives for our resident NASA
engineer's post, but the page I am looking at only has June July &
August archives. Does anyone know how to go back further?
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Thanks
Andy
On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Profile wrote:
Andy,
I know how you feel, this is a topic that baffles many of us, at
least me.
Lee has a setup that he can take over NASA anytime he wants and if
you can search the archives he has addressed your question fairly
well. Implementing them will be another story.
Yes to get all the channels you will have to get Insight's box, not
a good solution especially if there is a lack of room to set the
thing such as in the laundry or kitchen. Yes they get you coming
and going on the pricing of each box unless you can understand how
to do what Lee has done.
The cards have gone away, what a great idea they were but you still
would have to pay the $15.00 per month for them to program the card
for the package you purchased, you would lose the unsightly box
however.
John
On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Andy Arnold 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
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