[TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow after 64.
- From: "Electric Medic" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:38:42 -0400
Mark, Jeff, and All:
I wish I could tell some customers to use their old TV as a boat anchor,
but..they want to keep using them. Usually elderly customers. This is a
subject that needs to be discussed though. We spend a lot of time explaining
to customers that their old sets will not get those upper channels, but
since their display goes that far, they think I am lying. I had a lady that
could get channel 70 but not 71, (the cable company just added the Food
channel there and she wanted it bad), that was the cut off on her NAP set,
even though her display went to over 100. The bad part is she called
Philips, and they told her that it would. That put us in a bad situation. I
finally had to replace her tuner to prove to her that it was not a TV
problem. She finally made the cable company give her a cable box, and she
leaves her TV on channel 3. I can not believe that the TV designers and the
cable companies did not stick to the same standards. I guess this will be a
problem in the future with HDTV. I understand that possible they will be
changing that to a worldwide standard, then what will happen to the poor
soles whom have purchased HDTV's now. We will have to make that work too I
guess.
Perry Bower
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Subject: [TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow
after 64.
Those old sets are history. Some of the mid-band cable channels can be
received. Of course the OSD number assigned to these channels by the
micro will be arbitrary. Throw that sucker in the river! Or lake.
Whatever is most conveinient
Mark Wentowski
Perry Hill Electronics Service
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Montgomery, AL 36109
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Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:30 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow
after 64.
>
> Jeff:
>
> I can not believe more people are not responding to this. Interesting
> subject, and we have seen it many times. I am not 100% on the CTC140,
of
> course subbing the tuner will tell you for sure, but..I can not tell
you how
> many older sets that have digital tuners that will NOT pick up today's
> modern upper cable channels even though the OSD says it is on that
channel.
> We see it a lot especially since cable companies are adding more
channels.
> Customers do not understand why their set does not pick them up. I
have to
> believe it is because the cable channels on the upper bands are a
different
> freq than the TV. I have even seen some current lower band cable
channels
> come in on the upper channels on those older TV's. Sometimes they even
> repeat themselves. I mean you receive the same cable channel on maybe
> channel 12 on the TV and the same channel on 54 on the same TV.
>
> Perry Bower
> Electric Medic
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> [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of C&W Electronics
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 6:10 PM
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> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow
> after 64.
>
>
>
> Jeff,
> I'm an old tv repair guy also, but you might look on the back for a
UL#. If
> it's there, it's a US set, if not, then it's Canadian.
>
> Seems like there were some problems with the diodes in the tuner. They
had
> to be all replaced as a set, either 5 or 7 diodes. These were varactor
> diodes and determined the frequency, but it's been a looong time since
I
> worked on a 140 chassis.
>
> Paul W
> C&W Electronics
> Azle Texas
>
>
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> Subject: [TechAssist] CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow
after 64.
> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:53:18 -0400
>
>
> Customer is an ol' TV repair guy, out of the business since the 70's.
> I sold him this set and cable channels stop at 64. Trying to get
channel 71
> and he
> was insistent that there was a fine tuning for each channel....I tried
to
> explain
> that has been changed for some time.
> Anyway, manual says this set should get up to 91 cable channels in US,
64 in
> Canada.
> The fact that the TV OSD will go up to 90, leads me to believe set
should be
> receiving these channels above 64.
> Do I have an electrical problem, or was this set made for Canada?
> We are both curious about this problem.
>
> Jeff
>
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