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We have our in-house telephone service through Cox plus our High speed data service. Most of the major channels had something like that occurring but the normal speed to scan slowed down considerably. When you scan through channels around 1009 a black blockage of the channel appeared and remained for a few seconds then it would clear and the channel was fine. The next morning the channels came back but something weird was occurring. A screen showed no signal for each channel I tried. Our video went blank around 11:45PM for all channels. It started the day the same day that Time Warner was experiencing some problems across the nation. In other cases, you'll have to hide SD channels from your program guide (such as on AT&T's U-Verse) or set up a favorites list of HD channels that excludes their low-resolution siblings (for instance, on Verizon's Fios TV).Two things happened lately to our TV views from Cox. And Comcast's latest guide features a 'Watch in HD' button that should alert you when a program is available in high-def on another channel. DirecTV provides a ' hide SD duplicates' setting among its program-guide options. Cablevision's HD boxes, for example, tune in HD versions of network channels even if you select the single-digit numbers traditionally reserved for their SD identities. Some TV providers have realized this problem. If you've paid for an HDTV and a high-def TV package, why put up with a standard-definition version of a channel you already get in much better quality? But that can easily happen when cable or satellite program guides list an SD copy of a channel first, with its HD flavor somewhere up in the 300s, 400s or 800s on the guide. Tip: Don't watch SD versions of your HD channels

That's to get a TiVo digital video recorder or one of the handful of other devices to support CableCard reception.

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But it would also be years away.įor now, if you want to watch a full set of cable channels without a box - and don't want to have to worry about future QAM encryption or its current hassles - you have basically one option. One possible outcome to this debate, as I noted in a post for CEA, would be to trade QAM encryption for a commitment to support an FCC proposal for box-free TV tuning, called AllVid, that would work with cable and satellite systems alike. Another, Discovery Communications, owns a few cable channels.) ( Disclosures: One of my freelance clients, the Consumer Electronics Association, has qualms about this proposal. QAM tuners, unlike digital-cable adapters or boxes, can't decode scrambled transmissions in return, cable operators say they could activate service remotely instead of sending a truck to a new subscriber's house.

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Following a successful trial by Time Warner Cable in New York, the cable industry has been lobbying the Federal Communications Commission for permission to encrypt these channels as they do the rest of their lineup.

That's not guaranteed to be the case in the future. Yet QAM tuning does work, even if the occasional service rep may tell you otherwise. You also can't get anything beyond those basic channels, because cable operators usually scramble everything else. Without the benefit of the usual program-guide interface, those channels can appear in a long, apparently randomly-sorted list - and then, as readers have reported, they may also move around on that list. Getting entry-level cable this way can be a chore, as I've found. Your DTV should almost certainly include a QAM (' quadrature amplitude modulation') tuner that will allow it to receive those minimum-service channels just by plugging your TV into the nearest cable jack.

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If you've been using one to watch standard cable fare like ESPN or the Weather Channel without a box, you'll need a digital-cable adapter- a much smaller add-on than a regular cable box, in many cases free from Comcast- for that set.īut if you own a digital TV and only want to watch local broadcast stations (or public, educational and government channels, but not anything else), you don't need a box or an adapter. The 'cable-ready' tuners on some analog TVs can't read the stream of ones and zeroes that make up a digital cable feed. This transition - unrelated to the switch to digital over-the-air broadcasts that we finally made in 2009- should free up an enormous amount of bandwidth on its systems for faster Internet access and a wider range of channels. They say I'll need to get a cable box, but what if I only want to watch the local stations?Īnswer: Like many other cable operators, Comcast has been upgrading its local systems from analog to digital over the past few years. — - Question: Comcast is converting my cable TV to all-digital.