Once upon a time dbraun126 shaped the electrons to say... > What Comcast gave us was two Digital Transport Adapter boxes. Each > with its own remote, serial number and, apparently, has to be > "activated."
Ah, the DTAs, yes. They're moving channels from their analog range to their digital range it sounds like. > Right now her TIVO, (series 2) and our TV, receives only the lower > channels (up through 30) with a message about "now broadcast in > digital only" for stations above that. Both units have two tuners, > but I'm wondering what good THEY'LL be for the digital stations, as > in PIP capabilities. Also, if the DTA is set to an upper station and > the TIVO wants to record that will it matter which tuner it tries to > use? OK, here's what you need to do. You connect the DTA to the TiVo just like a cable box - AV from the DTA into the TiVo, IR blasters from the TiVo to the DTA. Configure the TiVo for digital cable and go through the cable box config - a DTA basically is a simple cable box. Then in the channel list you'll have channels flagged something like 'int' for intenral and 'box' for the cable box (maybe 'cbl'? Been a long time since I used an S2DT). UNCHECK any channels that are 'int' that you can no longer tune without the DTA. You want to use the DTA and not the internal tuner for those. Then, as I said before, the TiVo can use the two internal tuners for channels that are still analog (up to 30 in your case), and will use the DTA for the other channels. That means you can record two channels 1-30, or one channel 1-30 and one 30+, but NOT two channels 30+. Another member here recently went through this, check the archives for that thread for what he had to do to make it work well. It was just a couple of weeks back. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
