OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

[Craig White]

I do believe that they have different setups in different areas of the
valley and I know that they sometimes blow it on customer configuration.

As for HD, one would think that since the local channels are all
providing an HD signal, that these channels should just be free for
everyone to keep them from going to antenna.

As for the weather channel...it seems as though they dropped the Weather
+ (NBC) from the HD 700 range because it's been gone for several weeks
or perhaps months (I'm not a good one to ask about these things).

Craig

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:28 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> There are 3 HD channels you can get on cox without using their HD box.
> The channels are 12-1, 12-2, and 15-1.  One of them is just a weather
> channel but I have seen some decent HD shows on the others.
> 
> 
> Technomage-hawke wrote: 
> > On Monday 07 January 2008 12:21, Erich Newell wrote:
> >   
> > > Just a quick correction: Unless Cox has started giving away their
> > > service, you will not be able to connect anything to their equipment
> > > and get HD video to a recording device.
> > > 
> > > All analog channels above 23 are scrambled and all digital channels
> > > that aren't used for cabletv setup are encrypted, requiring a cable
> > > box or cable card to decrypt. Additionally, the transmission
> > > modulation for cable tv is different than OTA HDTV. ATSC with 8VSB is
> > > used for over the air, and NTSC via QPSK(64 or 256) is used for
> > > cabletv in the US.
> > >     
> > 
> > ok,
> > I find that rather interesting.
> > I can decode HD signaling with my current Happauge card on cox cable here.
> > I don't have anything other than basic cable (no extra boxes) so how is it
> > that I have all 99 base channels and 13 HD channels?
> > 
> > are you sure they don't have some low pass filtering on your service?
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