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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