04-22-2009, 02:33 PM
Hi,
I've got a nice, wall mounted 22" LCD TV in my study which connects to our (very) basic cable service through the wall coaxial (ie, there's no cable box).
The TV has a built-in QAM digital tuner and gets a few nice HD channels through the coaxial (which Comcast has to provide by law, right...all of the local HD channels at least and some non-local channels we just happen to get).
Anyway, since there's no box, there's no channel guide, etc. Also, Comcast likes to reshuffle all these channels all the time, so that one day my local CBS HD channel may be 86-3, but the next day it's gone from that location and after running the digital scan all over again and then flipping through all the resulting channels, I've found it's been relocated to 101-3 or something like that. This "reshuffle" seems to happen quite frequently and, as you can imagine, is quite annoying in the time and frustration it takes to remap everything and find where all the channels have gone.
So, I'm wondering if one of those cheapo digital converter boxes may solve this problem? As I understand, some of them have built in channel guides or something like that. Even though my TV has a digital tuner already, could I introduce this converter box into the mix to try and fix this "problem?"
I understand that Comcast probably does this to make it so annoying that you want to spend the extra $30 or so per month to get the box so you don't have to mess with this anymore. But, I'm stubborn and I'm not gonna cave in!
I've got a nice, wall mounted 22" LCD TV in my study which connects to our (very) basic cable service through the wall coaxial (ie, there's no cable box).
The TV has a built-in QAM digital tuner and gets a few nice HD channels through the coaxial (which Comcast has to provide by law, right...all of the local HD channels at least and some non-local channels we just happen to get).
Anyway, since there's no box, there's no channel guide, etc. Also, Comcast likes to reshuffle all these channels all the time, so that one day my local CBS HD channel may be 86-3, but the next day it's gone from that location and after running the digital scan all over again and then flipping through all the resulting channels, I've found it's been relocated to 101-3 or something like that. This "reshuffle" seems to happen quite frequently and, as you can imagine, is quite annoying in the time and frustration it takes to remap everything and find where all the channels have gone.
So, I'm wondering if one of those cheapo digital converter boxes may solve this problem? As I understand, some of them have built in channel guides or something like that. Even though my TV has a digital tuner already, could I introduce this converter box into the mix to try and fix this "problem?"
I understand that Comcast probably does this to make it so annoying that you want to spend the extra $30 or so per month to get the box so you don't have to mess with this anymore. But, I'm stubborn and I'm not gonna cave in!