Picking up digital cable channels on my TV without a digit..

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CableCard. Fairly new stuff, not implemented everywhere.

www.cablelabs.com

Read up and print out some highlights. Take it to your provider, show
that you appreciate technology. I'd give a sub the card and a free
month of everything just to see it and be able to take a few pictures
for educational use.

Only minus issue so far it that cablecard is one way - no PPV, no VOD.



zirconx9@yahoo.com (Ryan) wrote:

>I have a Sony WS550 series RPTV. It has a built in HDTV tuner, and a
>QAM tuner (digital cable tuner). I've called my cable provider
>(Cable One) and asked if I subscribe to their digital cable package,
>can I pick up the channels on my digital-cable-ready TV? (I dislike
>cable boxes for several reasons). They said no, I need to use their
>box. When I asked why, of course they did not respond (this was via
>email).
>
>But I *can* get some digital channels. Channel 76.1 on my TV is the
>pay-per-view preview channel. That, along with 10-20 audio only music
>channels is all the digital channels I've been able to pick up. But
>yesterday I was tuning around and found CourtTV and the International
>History channel on 76.10 and 76.11. Great! I thought. Then I turn on
>the TV today, and it says "No Signal". They're not there anymore!
>
>Any idea what's going on? I'd really like to be able to pick these
>up.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>-Ryan

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