<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Bobby Gill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobbygill@rogers.com">bobbygill@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Well, yes. But even now most analog is echoed on the SD multiplex. In my<br>
area, digital gets me what I need. Maybe with cable it's different but I<br>
would suspect that getting an analog tuner set up and running will only<br>
give you a few weeks of use at best.<br>
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--Yan<br>
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</blockquote></div></div>Pretty much same thing going on here. The only one that for me has different programming on analog is the local PBS station.<br><br>Richard<br></div>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>Okay, lost me here. Are you saying that if I get a card that captures Digital TV only (no analog input), and I just have regular analog cable TV right now, I can capture it fine? ie., Digital is kind of "backwards compatible" to grab analog?? I think this area confuses me most lol.<br>
<br>FYI I am using Rogers Cable TV (regular cable) in Canada. Family room has a Rogers Digital box (that I don't use as part of Myth; frontend is desktop PC in bedroom).</div></blockquote><div><br>Your "analog" cable TV can carry digital QAM (or clear QAM - unencrypted) digital channels. For most cable providers, these will be at a minimum of your over-the-air analog stations currently. For some it may be a more complete lineup. This is *not* the same as your cable provider providing digital service which is not QAM and requires their Set Top Box (STB) to tune. So, what you have is:<br>
<br>1. Analog tuner: Can tune any analog cable station (until your cable provider goes digital which is *not* the same as the broadcast stations going digital in December/January. This can also capture analog output from a STB using s-video, etc.<br>
<br>2. Digital QAM/ATSC tuner: Can tune any QAM cable station (which is likely on your "analog" cable service) as well as any digital broadcast stations (these are the ones you get via antena before/after Dec/Jan)<br>
<br>I hope this helps. I have basic cable from Comcast near Chicago. I get 12 stations tunable with a TV or PVR-150 type device. But at the same time I get almost all those stations (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS, etc) via QAM on the same cable service with no extra cost or package that I capture using my AverMedia A180.<br>
<br>Kevin</div></div><br></div>