[opendtv] Re: Cable Hookup
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:55:32 -0400
He is receiving something like basic cable. On the set with an HD
tuner he says he is receiving analog and digital channels from 2-13.
On the set without an HD tuner he is only receiving 2-13 analog.
All he is connecting to either set is a cable. I thought he would not
be able to receive digital channels at all without a digital cable
box. You have explained that he could receive them it seems.
I thought that maybe, somehow, he was receiving the digital channels
OTA with the cable somehow operating as an antenna.
I am not that technical and it was giving me a headache.
Thanks
Bob Miller
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:26 PM, John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob;
>
> HBO for certain would require a set top box (you made no mention of
> CableCard), and CNN can be encrypted as well.
>
> Cable can't encrypt broadcast channels, even if the broadcaster agrees.
>
> It's not the channel number, but the class of signal, and in the case of
> non-broadcast signals, the contract language that permits local carriage.
>
> However, I doubt that an HDTV set without a tuner receives any channel
> signals, analog or digital.
>
> It's a good bet that an analog tuner receives no digital signals, and it's a
> good bet that a digital tuner receives analog, 8-VSB and QAM signals.
>
> The inability of a cable customer to receive nothing but VHF signals could
> actually be a bad cable drop, bad wiring in-hours, a bad connector, connector
> mismatch or other things. Hard to tell from this distance.
>
> John Willkie
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Jun 23, 2008 8:32 AM
>>To: opendtv <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: [opendtv] Cable Hookup
>>
>>Have a question for anyone. If someone has cable and is "hooked up",
>>pirating the cable, on an HDTV set with a tuner will the scan find all
>>the channels, HD and otherwise? What happens without a digital tuner,
>>if it only has an analog tuner?
>>
>>Someone is claiming that on an HDTV set with tuner they are getting
>>2-13 analog and digital channels 2.1 2.2 to 13 but nothing else, no
>>CNN or HBO. They claim to be getting only analog 2-13 on the HDTV with
>>no tuner.
>>
>>Bob Miller
>>
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